And so it seems that the Kansas City Star is once again facing an imminent flush down the toilet bowl of history and they aren't getting the help they need from politicos using them like a press release service.
As the largest daily newspaper in this cowtown has managed to offend just about everybody without really saying much worthwhile . . . Here's an important part of their demise without editorial disguised as reporting . . . A straight up recounting of a rejection:
Abatement Advisory Board Declines to Catch a Falling Star
And here's the money quote . . .
Advisory Board Chairman Michael Duffy made the motion to recommend denial, giving two primary reasons. For one, Duffy said, Chapter 353 abatements were intended to be used as redevelopment incentives, “not as a bailout provision for a troubled business.” In addition, Duffy said, the Star‘s request appears to be “an end run around an adverse county determination of fair market valuation.”
And this is for the cheap seats . . .
POLITICOS ARE NOW SLAPPING AROUND THE KANSAS CITY STAR AND TELLING EVERYBODY THAT THE DEAD TREE MEDIA BIZ MODEL STAYS LOSING!!!
Remember, there's a broad diversity of newsprint and it's not all doomed . . . However, an army of trucks employed to deliver the latest Democratic Party talking points from last week simply doesn't seem to have a future and not even local politicos feel obligated to "Catch The Falling Kansas City Star."
Developing . . .
Really can't argue that KC would be worse without them since they're nothing any more.
ReplyDeleteJust curious, does anyone know of a city KC's relative size that has no daily paper?
ReplyDeleteThat seems to be where this thing is headed.
The Chapter 353 Advisory Board on Wednesday voted 3-0 to recommend that the Kansas City Council reject the The Kansas City Star's request.
ReplyDeleteLOL and what is the City Council going to with their Ministry of Disinformation-The Star not getting a taxpayer bailout.
Haha!
When the Star folds, Lynn Horsley can just keep her office at city hall and continue to crank out her usual rah rah nothing press releases.
ReplyDeleteJust like she does now.
How many former reporters and tv personalities work for one government jurisdiction or agency already?
Lots.
When you don't make it in your profession, head for a taxpayer-supported job.
Stars owner will be a penny stock at the rates things are going. MNI - Jun 29 4:03 PM 1.05 -0.11 (9.48%)
ReplyDeleteThe shorts are having a blast betting on this loser.
A classic example of a business that just refused to change with the times. Halmark will probably follow soon.
ReplyDeleteHallmark will probably be able to reposition and reinvent itself, diversify, and adapt. Not without some pain though.
ReplyDeleteMcClatchy on the other hand is pretty much screwed.
Hey Niggers,
ReplyDeleteCouncil often goes against the board's recommendation. So tuck away your Star boners. They can always go the 644 route; little known but very well taken advantage of.
The most potent of all political fantasies is that growth will solve every problem, i.e. we can grow our way out of corruption, artifice, lies, kleptocracy and most importantly, out of debt.
ReplyDeleteFALL 2012
ReplyDeleteTimes-Picayune publisher Ashton Phelps Jr. has confirmed that the newspaper will cease daily publication, moving to three days a week in the fall: Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. He also confirmed staff cuts, though he didn’t say how large they will be.
This would make New Orleans the largest U.S. city without a daily newspaper. The Times-Picayune, with a circulation of about 155,000 on Sundays and 134,000 weekdays, would be the largest paper in the U.S. to shift to non-daily publication. Its circulation in March 2005, before Hurricane Katrina flooded the city and shrank the city’s population: about 285,000 on Sundays and 257,000 weekdays.
FUNNY, New Orleans can blame Hurricane Katrina, BUT, Kansas City can only blame the Falling Star's racist, extreme liberal bias which alienated a large percentage of their once conservative readership.
TAKE DOWN the masthead!
If you don't read the KC Star, you are not informed.
ReplyDeleteIf you read the KC Star, you are misinformed.
It's a shame, really. The Star was one of the best papers in the country years ago ... pre-McClatchy, pre-Cap Cities, pre-Disney. A series of inept out-of-town owners let it deteriorate, and then it got caught up in the general collapse of the newspaper industry from about 2005 on.
ReplyDeleteI would bet the star, through some kind of crooked deal or politician, will eventually get it's bailout.
ReplyDeleteNewspapers will eventually become non profits like public TV and therefore get grants from liberal foundations and government. Politicians will not let their major supporters go away.
ReplyDeleteExactly whom is on this "advisory board"???
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