A few worthwhile features and A LOT of sports stories remain the last selling point of the Kansas City Star . . . Here's a great resume earning celebration from newspaper purists and we're only posting this one because we wanted to ask our blog community if this kind of thing makes a difference to local news watchers: Meet The New Dead Tree Media DenizenThe Star hires Pulitzer winner to head editorial board
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I am sure she is a very talented lady, but her career is heading to a dead end.
ReplyDelete"....currently covers Hillary Clinton's campaign."
ReplyDeleteWTF?
Instead of bringing some SANITY on-board, this sounds like the Star is doubling down on their HYPER-LIBERAL SOCIALIST DEMOCRAT slant.
Prize Winner meet your Waterloo.
ReplyDeleteA KU graduate.
ReplyDelete2010 Pulitzer: Tod Robberson, Colleen McCain Nelson, and William McKenzie, The Dallas Morning News, "for their relentless editorials deploring the stark social and economic disparity between the city’s better-off northern half and distressed southern half"
In KC, she'll be rewriting her Dallas editorials, but switching "northern/southern" to "east-side/suburbs"
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
DeleteEric Nelson is currently head of digital content for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. - From Nebraska
ReplyDeleteToot Toot Ding Ding! All Aboard!
If she doesn't fire the two remaining editorial page writers then the Star will continue it's decline.
ReplyDeleteA new Captain for the Titanic? Better do more than just rearranging the deck chairs, we're taking in water.
ReplyDeleteI do not like her chances to bring some ideological balance to the editorial pages. I'd be surprised if she wants to.
ReplyDeleteThis is something like hiring Warren Buffet to run a Tastee Freeze. Both will end up broke on their arse.
ReplyDeleteThey got Mary Sanchez to show them the ropes.
ReplyDeleteShe utterly demolished a Dallas blogger. Made him a shell of a man, a meth-using laughing stock, raving about light rail and corruption to a dwindling audience of racist weirdos who....
ReplyDeleteoh wait never mind
Yes, never mind. Most of us like the fact that we get news and perspective here that we can't get elsewhere. Certainly not from our clapped-out local media, where this good lady is about to take charge and likely give us more of the same. But welcome!
DeleteNew face, SAME old shit.
ReplyDeleteLemme gues.. Left winging libber who will parrot the same tired crud of the existing board. Yeah, that's why the Star needs
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