Former Kansas City Star Newsie Shares Dead-Tree Harsh Times

Things aren't looking good for the last remaining almost-daily in Kansas City.

Yesterday's high profile departure of a beloved cheerleader sports columnist has eroded confidence in the newspaper even further. 

Accordingly, our 2nd favorite old school newsie offers a dig at a long-suffering print honcho . . .

"Fannin is notoriously thin skinned. He once broke off a collaborative journalistic relationship with KCUR after KCUR ran a news story about the paper that Fannin didn’t like. It was a legitimate story, not a hit job."

But it gets worse . . . 

Here's a tragic pandemic deet . . . 

KANSAS CITY STAR NEWSIES STILL WORK FROM THEIR BASEMENTS LIKE BLOGGERS!!!

Check the dish picked out from a great deal of navel gazing print media perspective . . .

"Another interesting thing about The Star is that it is essentially “homeless.” By that I mean all employees have left the big, green, former printing plant at 1601 McGee and are now working from home…with their own cellphones and self-procured Reporters Notebooks."

Lulz. Jimmy C thinks people still use paper. 

Anyhoo . . .

There's some first rate nostalgia for the long lost religion art of newspaper journalism in this post that's actually worth a peek . . .

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com news link . . .

Sam Mellinger has found a new home, but The Star doesn't have one

I'm sure many of you know by now that sports columnist Sam Mellinger will be leaving The Star within a few days and taking over as vice president of communications for the Kansas City Royals. It was interesting to me how The Star handled the Mellinger story.