I'm never one to shy away from insults to The Star but maybe this was too much:
UG Commissioner has choice language for local reporterFolks have already argued over "the shock" of it all . . . So I'm glad the gut reaction garbage is out of the way.
During a lull in a presentation about the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities at last Thursday's Unified Government Board of Commissioners special session, Commissioner Nathan Barnes leaned over to Kansas City Star Wyandotte County reporter Mark Wiebe and called him a Klansman.
But here's the real question:
Isn't the Klansman comment for one of their reporters just another sign that The Star is out of touch with readers?
Conservatives are always spouting off about the "Red Star" or the "Falling Star" because their views aren't given much support.
Liberal feel left out.
I know for a fact that Kansas City's minority communities and urban core feel very little love for the paper of record.
In fact, the most ardent defenders of the institution are only those who seem to be drawing a check . . .
So, the mistake here would be thinking that it's just the Internets that's responsible for the demise of the daily paper . . . There also seems to be a very real backlash against an entrenched Kansas City institution that has fallen on hard times to the delight of a great many in this cowtown.
Personally, I'm not really enthusiastic about the death of dead tree media in and of itself . . . Only that the whole thing puts me one step closer to
YOu're not even close on this one tkc.
ReplyDeleteThe paper's fine. be glad we don't live in some other markets where papers run their circulation numbers on the front page and constantly war with their competitors.
Any cuts at the star are not in KCs interest because an agressive newspapr keeps cities clean.
Bloggers like you just run rumors planted by people with axes to grind, and television stations just suck up to the cops who give them most of their stories.
Nobody left to ask real questions and publish the answers except newspapers.
If minorities don't like the Star, its only because they don't like what they see in the mirror that newspapers hold up to their communities. And the right wingers don't like the Star because it doesn't shill on every page for the capitalists.
You really do need to take a jay school course on ethics in the press and read the definition of 'objectivity'.
Objectivity isn't whether you 'agree' with a report. it's whether you learned what actually happened at an event by reading a report on it.
Cable news has done this to us by erasing the lines between fact and opinion. That, friend, was the day journalism died.
Get the obits ready. Probably 6 months left for the Star. Maybe 12.
ReplyDeleteThe over under should be set at 9.
"Isn't the Klansman comment for one of their reporters just another sign that The Star is out of touch with readers?"
ReplyDeleteA question like this, on a topic like this, raises another question:
Are you fucking retarded?
Schadenfreude and race-baiting. Tony's raison d'etre!
ReplyDeleteFrench douche.
ReplyDeleteDo people still read the Red Star?
ReplyDeleteWas DeeAnn wearing her red heels?
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