In the precious few moments before Kansas City hits a homicide record, we want to share an brief but important insight into how local media has reported this devastating violence.
Most local news outlets check with KCPD numbers in order to document the tragic count. This practice offers independent verification because those numbers are submitted to the FBI at the end of the year.
However . . .
IN A BRAZEN MOVE THE KANSAS CITY STAR DISPUTES POLICE NUMBERS AND HAS ESTABLISHED THEIR OWN HOMICIDE COUNT THAT DOCUMENTS OFFICER-RELATED 'JUSTIFIED' SHOOTINGS AS PART OF THEIR NUMBERS!!!
The newspaper declared a record breaking homicide number last week and neither their subscribers or the public followed along.
In an era when the partisan debate fights over "facts vs. feelings" we can only argue that the Star's judgement is not open to independent review and is not documented by any government agency. The decision and data is simply granted to editors alone.
More importantly, every other news outlet in Kansas City deserves credit for siding with OFFICIAL numbers that are recorded by numerous law enforcement agencies rather than relying on dead-tree "journalists" with no accountability to the public.
To be fair, the we can infer some push back from the public if declining subscriber, advertiser and circulation numbers are taken into account.
Facts matter and what we've noticed is the declining influence of the Star's in part because of their inaccurate accounting of crucial stats that report his town's historic rate of killing.
You decide . . .
What's a newspaper?
ReplyDeleteWho?
ReplyDeleteSo the Star lied again nothing new there about that.
ReplyDeleteNot to worry.
ReplyDeleteIt will only influence their 6 subscribers.
Just.Shut.Down. Put the rag out of it's misery.
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ReplyDeleteThe Kansas City Star is a police hating American hating propaganda paper that can't even sell papers for more than a dollar and doesn't have enough news to wipe your butt with. They are desperate and pathetic.
^^^ 100%
DeleteAfter the Kansas City Star went full Communist; haven't read it in years.
ReplyDeletePublic University Journalism schools need to be defunded as they have produced these lying journalists with no ethics, no "journalistic integrity".
Wouldn’t line a birdcage with The Fallen Star.
ReplyDeleteThey should be counting the police shootings in the totals, those fuckers murdered people too
ReplyDeleteWhat's the Pitch say, that's where I usually get my biased and innacurate sjw news.
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ReplyDeleteExcellent point!
Justified homicide is homicide. Agree, it should be included in totals. Wonder how many justified homicides there are in the heavy hitters like Chicago and Baltimore?
ReplyDelete12:38 May as well include OSHA negligent manslaughter & toxic tort wrongful death then too.
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ReplyDelete1:19 Yeah. Forklift accidents. Cancer victims. How about swimming pool deaths? You really thought that through, and came up with that response? Brilliant.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-america.html yes to this too. I'd like to know the stats on all the hospitals.
ReplyDeleteThe UK has a corporate homicide law, the US does not.
ReplyDeleteThe Case for a Corporate Homicide Law
trench collapses are popular with OSHA:
https://www.equipmentworld.com/colo-contractor-charged-with-manslaughter-in-trench-collapse-death/Rosario “Chayo” MartÃnez
https://www.nesglobal.net/construction-foreman-sentenced-jail-trench-death/ Carlos Moncayo
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/12/05/south-end-boston-trench-collapse-atlantic-drain-kevin-otto-sentence-robert-higgins-kelvin-mattocks/ Robert Higgins and Kelvin Mattocks
https://www.ehstoday.com/construction/article/21919450/construction-company-owner-charged-with-manslaughter-over-workers-trench-death HAROLD FELTON
1:34 say their names mthr fucker.
ReplyDelete^^^ that’s funny right there!
ReplyDeleteFacts don't matter to the star writers. Publish a biased article, citing incorrect statistics, quote uncertified "experts and throw in unverified accounts of police abuses. However, it's really nothing new for the star.
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ReplyDelete^^ Don't forget the media's "anonymous" sources whenever they make up shit about President Trump.
^^You mean like this whole fake Biden laptop thing too?
ReplyDelete^^Except it's not fake. Weird.
ReplyDelete^^^The phrase is "fake Biden," not "fake laptop." I think we can agree that Biden is a fake, but the laptop is real. You can tell that it's real by the way so many journo-liars are pretending it's not.
ReplyDelete^^and yet it is fake and nobody is buying it. Weird. When does the Durham report drop BTW? Where are we on Obamagate too?
ReplyDeleteI will dance in the street when the STAR goes belly up
ReplyDelete^^You'll go belly up first geezer. Tick tock.
ReplyDelete2:54 Oh you silly silly little queen!
ReplyDeleteThe Star is dying a slow death. Will they count their own demise as well?
ReplyDelete2:54 will die in a BLM peaceful protest within the year.
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