Prime Buzz, the Star’s online haven for all things political, has seen its own Jason Noble become the newest darling of Kansas City’s left by noting the utter hypocrisy of local political consultant and non-photogenic man Jeff Roe. Jeff posted a little item on his blog about kidnapper Kay Barnes moving out of tony Briarcliff. [...]
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Star Not-So-Subtly Mocks Area Nerds
Posted in Local Journalism, Star, Technology, tagged Facebook, Spammers, Journalism-as-mockery on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From today’s Star: John VanPelt would seem to be the ideal Facebooker. He never rejects a friend request. He posts pithy comments on friends’ walls — constantly. Little did John Van Pelt know that Meredith Rodriguez would turn these words into the lead for a story that would make the whole city smirk.
McClanahan Joins Chorus Of Jingoism Emanating From Star
Posted in Local Journalism, Local blogs, Politics, Star, Star Comments, tagged Star Blogs, Midwest Voices, E. Thomas McClanahan, Jingoism, War Cheerleaders on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We all knew that the Star’s editorial overlords would take on the subject of Obama’s speech last night. What no one realized is that the paper’s Midwest Voices blog had become the repository of the kind of faux-patriotic rah-rah’ing that got us into this mess to begin with. It was just yesterday that Tom Ryan [...]
Star Reader Advisory Panelists Pretty Much Taking Talking Points Straight From Reactionary Fringe These Days
Posted in Economics, Local blogs, Politics, Star, tagged Afghanistan, Midwest Voices, Obama, Questionable Ideas, Tom Ryan on December 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Star, as you may know, keeps a stable of “reader advisory panelists” to, presumably, inject an everyman voice into the proceedings at the local paper of record. However, their work often ends up being little more than a glorified letter to the editor. First there was Danette Gamble’s little diatribe against how Islam, and [...]
Everything That’s Wrong With The Star, Nicely Encapsulated In One Photo-Dominated, Virtually Textless A&E Section
Posted in Art, Film, Local Journalism, Star, tagged KC Star, Viggo Mortensen, Robert Butler, Nicolai Ouroussoff on November 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Newspaper readership has not been the most expansive area of American culture of late, even if recent reports provide some encouraging news. And why is it plummeting? Because papers like the Star make the inexplicable decision to publish a poster-sized photo of Viggo Mortensen while giving you just 409 words of article text on the [...]
Professional Controversy-Generator Jason Whitlock Knows Exactly How To Flesh Out This Mangino Brouhaha
Posted in Jason Whitlock, Sports, Star, tagged Jason Whitlock, Mark Mangino, Non-Talents on November 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Ah, Jason Whitlock. You excel in one thing: hyperbolic exacerbation. Where there’s even an inkling of scandal, and where there usually is none, you manage to inject some kind of fake outrage into the occasion to help generate page views. It helps if race is involved — then you get to talk about how many [...]
Posted in Star, Weather, tagged Scott Canon on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I guess it’s not enough for the Star to fire a bunch of reporters. Now it has to exile them to Antarctica.
Kent Babb Might Be Hiding In Bushes Outside LJ’s House
Posted in Chiefs, Local Journalism, Scary stuff, Star, Technology, tagged Kent Babb, larry johnson, Twitter on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Courtesy of Justin over at the Pitch and Kent Babb’s own Twitter feed (reminder: you can follow us) comes a very odd story indeed. You’re probably wondering yourself where Larry Johnson will end up, but mostly in the “oh, that’s interesting” kind of way. Not so for the Star’s Kent Babb, who is, shall we [...]
Star Hosts Saddest Press Release World Has Ever Known
Posted in Art, Literature, Press Release Central, Star, tagged New Books, Press Releases, Robert Thornhill on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Looking for some holiday reading? How about picking up the latest book by Robert Thornhill? Wait — I find it hard to believe you’ve never heard of Robert Thornhill. After all, didn’t you catch the announcement of his new book on the Star’s press release clearinghouse? Surely you check there for new releases. After all, [...]
Posted in Local blogs, Politics, Star, tagged Comments, Star Blogs, Star Reader Advisory Panel, Tom Ryan on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tom Ryan makes a plea for politeness in the comments. We understand and applaud. But how about a plea for sensible political arguments?
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