TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! DEAD TREE MEDIA DECLINE: STEVE SHIRK SEYZ SO LONG AND NOW KANSAS CITY STAR EXECS HAVE NO REPORTING EXPERIENCE!!!
The decline of the newspaper industry is now fast and furious in Kansas City.
To wit . . .
MANAGING EDITOR STEVE SHIRK RETIRED LAST WEEK WITH LITTLE FANFARE!!!
More . . .
NOW, KICK-ASS TKC TIPSTERS SEND WORD OF A HUGE LOSS FOR THE KANSAS CITY STAR AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DEAD TREE MEDIA JUGGERNAUT IN DECLINE!!!
Ironically, this guy was pretty good at keeping himself off the Internets . . . Here's the best photo we could find . . .
Here's the word as our bloggy community now leads the local discourse. Natch . . . Meanwhile, Dead Tree Media dudes shouldn't get too testy (hehe) about this development given that the complaints within the industry are now growing louder amid so many changes. Check it:
Dead Tree Media Decline And Switcheroo
TKC: the guy who retired last week was Steve Shirk, the paper’s managing editor for the past 18 years.
For all those years, Shirk was the invisible hand on the wheel that kept whoever was the top editor – Brisbane, Zieman, Fannin – from driving the bus into a ditch. You never heard his name publicly, but he was always the grownup in the room – the wise, experienced, level-headed journalist that everyone looked to when it was time to make a major decision.
His loss is absolutely huge. The newsroom “leadership” now consists of editor Mike Fannin and Assistant managing editor Greg Farmer – two guys with huge egos, neither of whom has ever actually covered a news story in his life – not so much as a city council or school board meeting.
The next time there’s a major decision to be made at 18th and Grand, people are going to look around and wonder who is going to be the grownup in the room. Right now, that question doesn’t have an answer.
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Developing . . .
This one is a very big deal TKC and it shows you that McClatchy is on the verge of making some really big changes.
ReplyDeleteIs there any city relatively close to the size of KC that has no daily newspaper?
ReplyDeleteBecause it seems that we are getting close to that point.
stopped subscribing to that rag 4 years ago...felt great to know I was no longer contributing to the salaries of their uber-BS columnists like Dickweed, Rose, Shelly et al.
ReplyDeleteBTW - can read all their articles u want online -- just clear your browser cache if any "limit" msgs come up--
hope they fold -- soon!
Honestly, this is good reporting by your "tipster" TKC.
ReplyDeleteI had a lot of disagreements with Steve over the years but they always started with my respect for his work and knowledge. That's the problem with the new management. They just don't know the work that goes into reporting That's going to show in their product. And soon.
And the deleted comments just keep on disappearing!
ReplyDeleteAmazing!
The decline of the newspaper industry is now fast and furious in Kansas City.
ReplyDeleteThis must have been what caused tech and internet stocks to crash today.
Perhaps their reporting has fallen to a level where there is no longer a need for a grownup in the room. I have not read anything in any way ground breaking from them in years.
ReplyDeleteThe internet isn't exactly sophistication central either.
ReplyDelete@7:26 - Why don't you stop being a bitch? NOBODY is deleting your comments, you're just being a bullshitter and hoping somebody believes you. If Tony cared about you, he'd delete that comment as well. Guess what's it's still here and you're still full of shit.
ReplyDeleteMake your stupid comment and get smacked in the face by me again. You suck at life.
Maybe you should go read the Star, seems like it's more your speed.
Shitheel.
I read The Times!
ReplyDeleteKind of fitting that on the day of this posting, guess what happened to McClatchy stock?
ReplyDeleteThe McClatchy Company (MNI)-NYSE
1.84 0.00(0.00%) 4:01PM EDT
That's right!! It went NOWHERE!
52-week low = $1.75
Oh, and 6:39 comment, recall that the New Orleans Times Picayune went to WED/FRI/SUN publishing in 2012, with staff cuts.
Interesting, I hadn't heard that about the New Orleans newspaper.
ReplyDeleteJust imagine the kind of corruption the city could get away with with the (albeit pathetic) reporting of the Star going away.
Don't worry, Hoops will get everything turned around there.
ReplyDeleteUncle Sam sells lots of weapons and the business of WAR surges forward!!
ReplyDeleteBREAKING!!!!!!!!
Another Middle East War Breaks Out: US-Supported Saudi Arabia Begins Bombing Yemen
Zerohedge.com
03/25/2015 - 19:53
UPDATE: US providing support to Saudi Arabia - US Official (so US weapons are being used on both sides)
Earlier today we reported that, on very short notice, Saudi Arabia had moved heavy military equipment including artillery to areas near its border with Yemen, "raising the risk that the Middle East’s top oil power will be drawn into the worsening Yemeni conflict." In other words, Saudi Arabia was preparing for war. Moments ago all these warnings were borne out when Al-Arabiya reported that the latest middle-east war is now official after Saudi Arabia and Arab Gulf States had launched a bombing campaign against Yemen.
The Star is dead.
ReplyDeleteGOOD!
It's an industry phenomenon. One that is not limited to KC. You sucks can get your objective reporting here in TKC.
ReplyDeleteSure.
Other than crap on people who are having issues, which this blog seems to be about, identify one comment that is meaningful or helpful.
Another day bitching. Deeper question is, why would anyone give a shit if someone else posted that their comments have been deleted.
Think, chill.
Because it's funny as hell to watch Tony say "free speech" out of one side of his mouth and delete comments almost simultaneously.
ReplyDeleteIt's fun to watch the downward spiral from afar, let me tell you.
All the way from City Hall.
DeleteNobody deleted your bullshit. If he did, then he would have deleted that one.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't like it, don't read it.
Hey my comments got deleted too.
ReplyDeleteI think it was Seattle that dropped printed dailies, does online only. Birmingham I believe dumped their daily.
ReplyDeleteAs the older generation dies out the younger generation many of whom have no idea what a newspaper or magazine is turn to online only. Why read an in depth story that is already 12 hours obsolete when i go online any hour of the day and get up to the second info.
KC STAR needs to die at least as a printed paper. Get ride of the dinosaur editors that have no clue other than to pad ego and get some real 24/7 digital media experts on the payroll.