Navel-gazing earns a bump in publicity whilst likely driving away subscribers in droves amid an era when advertising dollars aren't sustaining the declining print biz.
Nevertheless, the dead-tree media operation continues to DIE BY WAY OF ENCOURAGEMENT as news outlets with more secure funding celebrate the divisive self-involved coverage.
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Kansas City Star apologizes for decades of racist coverage
One of the Midwest's most influential newspapers apologized Sunday for what its top editor described as decades of racist coverage of Kansas City. In a letter to readers, Mike Fannin, who has been the Kansas City Star's editor since 2008, wrote that the newspaper "disenfranchised, ignored and scorned generations of Black Kansas Citians.
So, you're telling me that the newspaper gave up all their credibility for a 70 second blip on the Sunday night national news? That doesn't seem like a fair trade.
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DeleteYou think the Star had any credibility left? Lulz.
It’s not white guilt
ReplyDeleteIt’s democrat party guilt
Two centuries of democrats history towards black people is what their guilty of
He Fanin, a couple BBCs are at your house screwing your wife and waiting for you to come home and crouch in the corner until it's time to bat clean up. Cuck
ReplyDeleteI worked around journalists for years - all over the country - and very quickly learned of the disdain they held for readers. More times than not the editorial staffs (advertising people were usually pretty cool) seemed to believe their audience was stupid, wholly unappreciative of the literary brilliance that was being laid before them.
ReplyDeleteThis "apology" nonsense by the Star seems to be an extension of that thought. Even in their death throes, they wish everyone to know how morally and ethically superior they are.
Chatham (the hedge fund that owns the Star) has probably sucked out just about all the revenue they can from the paper, and we know they've sold off every physical asset.
Six months, tops, before the Star is 100% digital
But who wants to read its digital?
Delete"I worked around journalists for years"
DeleteWhat was emptying trash cans and mopping floors like?
The fact that the article starts with the notion that the Star is "one of the mid-west's most influential newspapers" is a sure giveaway that its writers don't know squat about their topic.
ReplyDeleteThe Star has descended into the "woke" echo chamber which makes every story and particularly every editorial bend to the same tired narrative of victimization of one identifiable segment of the community, and turning a blind eye to the terrible dysfunction and violence that occur there each and every day.
Willful ignorance.
Terrible journalism.
And doesn't even actually help their favorite victims.
Sad.
the biggest bullshit ive heard in awhile
ReplyDeleteBlack males aged 15-35 make up 3% of the nation’s population and are responsible for:
ReplyDelete53% of all mass shootings
52% of all homicides
42% of all murders of on-duty police
30% of all rapes
56% of all robberies
33% of all aggravated assaults
30% of all burglaries
38% of all 'Violent Crime'
33% of all crimes against 'families and children'
Editor Mike Fannin is just another media Liberal Democrat living in suburban Johnson County Kansas...SURPRISE!
ReplyDeleteHow do you know folks like Fannin, Helling, Kraske, Haines, etc., are major HYPOCRITES? Because at the same time they pretend to be concerned about the plight of urban KCMO residents, they themselves choose to reside in Conservative Republican, fiscally conservative managed Johnson County suburbs like Olathe, Shawnee, Fairway, Leawood, Overland Park.
Right before the Star ceases print, they confess their racist sins and turn over the bankrupt operation to people of color, while taking a huge tax write-off for "goodwill"!! Star's been a big joke for years and years.
It seems counterproductive to put several negative headlines about "negroes" causing crime in the old days in an article like this. While I know what the Star is trying to do with the article, it just reminds the entire community about crime based on a certain race. Not sure it was a smart move by the Star to include that particular angle in a "repentance" piece, but the Star has never been known for its good judgment.
ReplyDeletethe Red Star has beeb uber-lib for the last 10-15 years ..at least..
ReplyDeleteI bailed on them years ago.. back when ol Lewie Dikweed was constantly posting his hate-Whitey screeds..
I refer to him as Doo-Doo-Good but Dickweed is closer to the mark.
DeleteAnd yet, their paper got a national media mention and a spotlight today.
ReplyDeleteYou CHUDS did nothing with your lives and nobody cared. Sad.
Gee, it sounds like you are a deranged tranny that posts frequently on Bunkerchan?
DeleteOr is Act Blue paying you per post?
So? Serial killers always get 15 minutes of fame.
ReplyDeleteI wasted $4 on that nasty rag today as I was genuinely curious what this was all about. I honestly should have known better. Instead of a fair and thoughtful article (ha, what was I thinking?1?) I was treated to a tirade of accusations of white privilege, being a part systemic racism, and in general being a white POS. What a desperate and pathetic last-ditch attempt to revive something that's been dead for a long time. If there is still any doubt as to how low the Star will go, not only have they formed an "advisory group for fair and inclusive coverage of communities of color", but guess who one of the haters is who is included in this group? None other than Stacy Shaw. Yep, the bullhorn bigmouth b#@!$ herself. Well, if that doesn't tell you all you need to know, I don't know what will.
ReplyDeleteI haven't bought that POS in over 20 years.
ReplyDeleteNow the mayor and that rag are matching national embarrassments.
ReplyDeleteThe Star should Apologize to conservatives for treatment over the last 50 years if they're doing some soul searching.
ReplyDeleteWhile they’re are on their self righteous apology tour did they apologize for all the murderous thieving, rapin and robin koloreds?
ReplyDeleteI have to agree that every comment about the KC SCAR today is well deserved. I never thought it could get worse that it has been recently. I guess I underestimated Mike Fannin after all. Todays edition just proves that the Editors, Editorial Board Members and Journalists are indeed the most racist people on earth.
ReplyDeleteHad - the 6th biggest word in the dictionary.
ReplyDeleteThe star is a printing business. They took all the regional newspaper printing they could under bid within delivery range. No money in being pinkos it's all a front for the money.
ReplyDeleteIs the star looking to taste mayor Lickass's DNA off the spot he knelt for the BLM rioters ?
ReplyDeleteSo the KC Star finally tumbled to the obvious, what everybody else has known for decades: they made some shit up, they ignored a bunch of other shit, and have been a POS rag since its founding.
ReplyDeleteMeaning they'll be refunding the subscription fees we all paid for decades, right?
The Star disenfranchised black people because they are mostly illiterate and illiterate people don’t buy newspapers.
ReplyDeleteOther "Southern" newspapers should do the same.
ReplyDeleteIn the Deep South, newspapers would advertise the day's lynching in the morning edition.
If you don't believe me, then check for yourself.
Frankly, Tony, I don't understand your characterization, here.
Are you saying they are wrong for admitting that they were wrong?
They need to go to the Catholic Church and offer confession. Since the company has laid off so many in the last decade, they can probably all fit in the little confession booth and get this off their collective chests in the eyes of God.
ReplyDeleteTalk about stating the obvious. Thanks for letting us know that racism is bad, KC Red Star.
ReplyDeleteThey could have used the print space instead to cover the Hunter Biden story they've done a great job of ignoring for months.
ReplyDeleteWe Heard you loud and clear for the past four months, racist MAGATS. You lost. Get over it. Move along little doggie...
ReplyDeleteNo, how about you first pussy. Go find a tree and some rope. Np one will care or miss you.
DeleteAnonymous Ron said...
ReplyDeleteAnd yet, their paper got a national media mention and a spotlight today.
You CHUDS did nothing with your lives and nobody cared. Sad.
ABOVE POST....TIME MAG MADE DEMENTIA JOE AND SKANKY HARRIS FOLKS OF THE YEAR.
SO MUCH FOR "NATIONAL MEDIA". "NATIONAL MEDIA"? IS THAT YOUR GO TO SOURCE OF INFO?
Wonder when Tony will apologize for fifteen years of racists on display.
ReplyDelete11:02: You must be new to TKC. Most of the Neanderthals who post here are stuck is the pre-Civil Rights era, if not the 1890s. They believe white supremacy is the natural order of the universe and will fight tooth and claw to avoid being dragged into the 20th Century.
ReplyDeleteFalse. The woke-scolds (almost exclusively white) who want to pretend it's still 1963 are the problem. In place of doing anything useful about real issues, they piss their pants over hurtful words and virtue signal like crazy. This is exclusively to push their white guilt ticket so they don't have to think.
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ReplyDeleteTo hell with all of you BLM traitors you will pay big for this crap. Get the hell out of our country.
'Racism', quite an important word, has utterly lost its meaning. Instead of applying to those who harbor hatred for difference, it is mostly now used as a political assessment of nonconformity with existing racial narrative.
ReplyDeleteHere's another riveting newsflash from the KC Star -- racism is bad. Thank you so much for the clarification. The common people are honored you would bestow so much wisdom upon us through your putrid publication.
ReplyDelete8:35: And yet "your country" is a rusted trailer in Podunk. Weird.
ReplyDeletePublicly self flagellating was bad (embarrassing) enough, but even worse the Star devoted its entire "news" section to its confessional. The Star is supposed to be a newspaper. People who subscribe to The Star want news. The Sunday Star provided no news whatsoever. It continues to screw over its few remaining subscribers. Journalists usually think that the real story is them.
ReplyDeleteWell 12% of the population is now 70% of the people in TV commercials.
ReplyDeleteBlacks
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I like how the local BLM supports all voted what they think is some old white man to lead them When in fact he is being led by a cabal of rich old white men from Europe. Oh some will say no its really obama calling the shots. Nope obama was put in office again by rich old white man and is controlled by rich old white man. useful idiots and being generous towards BLM.
ReplyDeletekuntmala gash has still not given up her semen seat. EO2020
ReplyDeleteRacists are believers in evolution. What has any race other than whites done to advance civilization in the last 1000 years ?
ReplyDeleteCAMELTOE HAIRYASS
ReplyDelete"Well 12% of the population is now 70% of the people in TV commercials."
ReplyDeleteYou mean thin people who are good looking?
Nope. The most endangered species in the world is straight seeming white men in commercials.
DeleteThere is no "Hunter Biden" story, unless you count the story that Fox News invented to try to help Trump.
ReplyDeleteTrump's latest evidence of mental illness: He now says that the virus was invented to cost him the election.
10:03, the "white race" gave us two world wars, the Holocaust, Jim Crow & genocide.
Yea what did the rest of the world do fruitcake? What language are you speaking in ? Chinese? Click click bushman speak? What did white dna give you fruitcake, cold resistance ,dairy consumption to feed your feeble brain from becoming even more feeble, you talk this shit without recognizing the power and prominence of the aryan race over thousands of years of harsh honing. But go lick black balls and move to the congo fruitcake to be with your brothers in arms.
ReplyDeletetony's punchy intro essay was pretty darn good summary.
ReplyDeletemy goodness the star is digging their own grave
funny to whom are they apologizing? is the offended group who died decades ago reading their paper
8:50 you are wrong, the wokesters are pro - war they don't want to be like the 60s anti war movement.
ReplyDeleteThe Woke Empire Strikes Back
They are admitting nothing and taking responsibility for nothing. Their "apology" is for the actions of other people, most long dead - all long gone, which couldn't be more disingenuous.
ReplyDeleteThe positive comments on here must be from Star writers and op-edders. Who else would think this hollow gesture did anything for anyone? This paper has been reduced to a 35 page daily editorial with occasional 3-day old news tossed in for appearances. Just the latest work of a pitiful twosome: The one-trick pony Glenn Rice, once a decent crime beat reporter and now a tired race baiter and second-guesser teaming up with Mike Hendricks, so lame he was laid off and agreed to return working for peanuts and zero benefits, while preaching to KCMO residents from behind the locked doors of his split level in Lenexa. If you haven't read the piece, don't bother it's a big nothing.
ReplyDeleteoh my gosh 11:44 are you so sure that tyrone with neck tatz didn't pay four dollars for the sunday paper and carefully read the ten page section and then seriously consider its contents??????
ReplyDeleteIf the Star was really sorry they would print the paper in ebonics so the ghetto monkeys could read it.
ReplyDelete^^Lulz!
ReplyDeleteI have not bought a KC star paper in 30 years, about the time they went extreme, nor do I read anything from them and turn the channel as soon as Dave Helling starts his sermons on Fox!! I will literally dance in the street when they close their doors forever, hoping a decent newspaper takes its place!
ReplyDeleteTony needs to throw you racist twats some fresh meat. You've pretty much chewed this one to death.
ReplyDeleteWhen did KC's AA's start to be the majority of the KC SJWStar's readership and advertisers?
ReplyDeleteWould Kanye Mambo?
^^also the most boring and least fuckable too.
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