Kansas City airport advocates are watching the single terminal scheme crash and burn in these past few days.
This week testimony from Southwest grounded high hopes of public relations people working with City Hall . . .
Here's the best take on that topic from The Show-Me blog:
Airlines Wary Of New Airport Terminal In Kansas City
Now here's where it gets good . . .
In the aftermath of brutal airport testimony, the conclusion and facts of the meeting were obvious.
Check this forthright and objective report from Lynn Horrsley @ The Star . . . Like it should, the lead tells the whole story:
Southwest Airline representatives predicted Tuesday that a new Kansas City airport terminal is unlikely to significantly increase non-stop flights or passenger demand.
And then . . .
JUST A FEW HOURS LATER THE REPORT WAS CLEANED UP AND MUCH MORE UPBEAT AND OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE OF KCI!!!
This is nearly punchy PR presser copy that now takes the lead of the very same story . . . Entitled: Southwest Representatives Urge Caution On Costly New KC Terminal
Want a spiffier airport, Kansas City, with more amenities, roomier gates and more practical security screening? Aviation experts say that’s what’s needed to replace an antiquated facility.
The first link was saved from a content aggregation airline industry site that doesn't have to kowtow to local special interests and power brokers.
The Kansas City Star . . . Not so much.
Newspaper links of the story that devastated KCI Single-Terminal hopes changed hyperlink structure, moved along the site and were just plain hard to follow for anybody but the most ardent news watchers.
Meanwhile, the only bright side in all of this is that digital media and the Internets help keep track of so many changes to the KCI story as the bad news falls out of the sky.
Developing . . .
Done deal. The trick now is just to get a good consulting contract.
ReplyDeleteIs Yael planning to become the spokesman for KCI when he finally gets canned by the Star?
ReplyDeleteOr maybe a nice spot with Dunn.
The editorial board's positions about this certainly haven't been based on any realt reporting or facts.
Wow. Just wow.
ReplyDeleteThe rewrite is unacceptable and probably the only copy that people who just take the paper got to see.
ReplyDeleteSo Horsley actually wrote a fair piece of journalism and then the city PR machine moved in and their minions at the Star rewrote the story. I thought this shit just happened on TV.
ReplyDeleteIs this that voice for the voiceless BS that their publisher was trying to sell us a few weeks ago.
Shame.
Well, this explains why Horsley's original report never made it to the main page of the website. I looked all day for it. I finally found it with a search and yes, it was different than what is there now.
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ReplyDeleteWhy is anyone surprised that a metro daily is part of the real estate industrial development complex?
ReplyDeleteSince the real thing will get you fired, everyone who works for government or Corporate America masters the fine arts of producing simulacra, legerdemain and illusion. This only further obscures the real dynamics, making legitimate analysis that much more difficult.
ReplyDeleteWell we all know who the two biggest liars in KC are, Star and Glazer so why is all acting so shocked?
ReplyDeleteAlonzo isn't one of the two because he is just plain bat shit crazy.
Because as we all know news accounts can NEVER change, ever, and what's filed early for online MUST NEVER be allowed to be rewritten for, say, a print newspaper.
ReplyDeleteTranslation: don't be taking journalism ethics lessons from Colonel Slanders here.
6:32 - There is a difference between corrections for accuracy and rewriting to reset tonality. BIG difference. Or at least we were taught that in J-School.
ReplyDeleteOr IF you do, you are absolutely required to post "UPDATED" to let readers know what changed.
ReplyDeleteSo you're saying that journalists should take a cue from blogs?
ReplyDeleteProbably right!
The purpose of government is to serve the ruling class.
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ReplyDelete7:07 True, unless of course you have an agenda and don't want people to see what you are up to.
ReplyDeleteew 756. i believe the line is "say what you want about the tenants of NATIONAL socialism, at least its an ethos". nazis, like bolsheviks, favored centrally planned economies (ew, right?), but bolsheviks claimed to be pacifists while nazis made no secret of their imperial desires.
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