For about two years Kansas City has endured a horrific spate of carnage on local streets. Last year the number rose to a historic level.
Amid all of this carnage the newspaper often trumpets its ability to bring locals accurate info about the state of current affairs . . . But most of what we have seen is cheerleading directed by City Hall and a lot more sports coverage.
Our blog community notes the now defunct Homicide KC effort as an example of the newspaper's lack of commitment regarding urban core coverage.
The crime map is as dormant as any defunct shopping mall and offers a more accurate view of local news priorities as they publish one story after the next about a baseball star's demise but virtually ignore more than half of the local population coping with a steadily rising rate of violence and murder.
Developing . . .
To be fair, it is black people killing black people. Must be how they want it considering how often it happens all over the world.
ReplyDeleteYOU'RE OUR BEACON OF TRUTH TONY!!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm kidding of course. You're an utter shitheel.
The media doesn't honestly report crime, for the same reason that the media doesn't treat all missing persons cases, equally. The "Community" is the white people. The other people just live there. The media is a product of, & therefore, serves the "Community".
ReplyDeleteIn other words, they feel exactly as 8:58 does, even though he is factually wrong.
They won't admit this, of course, & even 8:58 is cowardly anonymous about it, but they truly don't care if people of color kill each other.
Did you all magically become nice people when the civil rights act was passed? Did you all magically become nice people when the schools were desegregated?
NO, you still suffer from the white man's disease called racism.
Einstein was right: white people are defective.
I wish the swamp critters would hurry up and off each other so we can drain it.
ReplyDeleteByron, Einstein was right. You are proof!
ReplyDeleteYou're right Byron, I don't care if they kill each other just like they obviously don't care as evidenced by their own self-inflicted, slow-moving genocide. Unfortunately they breed faster than they kill.
ReplyDeletegood callout of MIA local newspaper.
ReplyDeleteKCPD crime map sucks.
ReplyDeleteMost of the deaths end up saving the state years of room and board down the road.
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