Talk about having egg on your face…
One headline from yesterday you won’t be reading in your Kansas City Star:
“Kate Spade’s Death: ‘There Was No Indication And No Warning,’ Says Her Husband.”
Contrast that with the Star’s front page headline earlier that same day:
“Suicide ‘not unexpected’ after years of mental illness, sister says.”
The Star stepped in it good with that story.
Because of the newspaper’s carelessness and desire to snag a cheap, tawdry “scoop,” Kate Spade’s family was forced to step further into the news limelight than they would otherwise have preferred in order to set the record straight.
Which as KCC readers know, was that Spade’s estranged sister’s sedative-fueled rant was a crock of you-know what. One that any clear thinking editor would and should have recognized for what it was. But desperate to come up with something unique for hometown readers, the Star didn’t just run with it, they gave it front page treatment that gave the impression that readers were being treated to legitimate insights from Spade’s family.
Which they were not.
For its effort, the Star received a failing grade from no less than mighty the New York Times in the form of a same day, front page correction.
a portion of Andy Spade’s statement discrediting the estranged sister’s email “scoop” that the Star ran.
The Star’s reaction?
A three story tap dance buried inside in today’s newspaper, camouflaged as followups to yesterday’s embarrassing fuck-up.
For starters, schlockmeister Eric Adler finally tracked down Spade’s 90 year-old father who made a couple generalizations about suicide combined with a carefully worded support for his daughter – the sister in question – that the Star and Adler had thrown under the bus yesterday by capitalizing on her out-there babbling.
The odd thing today being that columnists Jenee Osterheldt and Mary Sanchez – neither of whom come close to knowing Kate Spade or her family – both excerpted portions of the New York Times discredited email from Spade’s sister in an effort to sound like they knew what they were talking about.
Close, but no cigar…
Memo to the clueless at 18th & Grand: Let it go.
You screwed up big time – not just by running but way overplaying – Spade’s sister’s rant. Move on. Stop trying to salvage some small measure of credibility by referring back to the discredited rant.
Or how about this maybe…
Go ahead and run that New York Times interview with Kate’s husband Andy Spade – headline and all – laying out the sister’s falsehoods and distortions and take your well-deserved medicine.
Trust me, often as the Star runs NYT stories in their entirety, this won’t be one of them.
Did he “shoot down The Star’s big scoop?” Or did the husband give his sanitized (guilt-ridden, perhaps) perspective? Each family member (including the one who’s your source) have different perspectives and agendas.
Nice try….
But that of course ignores that the entire family has cut ties with her and did
You not read her loopy rant?
Hearne…at times I am surprised at the level of fame groupie you are, or have become. A pal who grew up across the street from her family and is still friendly with them. He wrote the most terrific personal post. Your continued conjecture about who knows what, when you know nothing or anyone near that family, makes you look like a complete fool..but maybe you are because of below.
What is worse is your continuing to allow Ms. Glazer a failed nobody steroid driven fool, to time after time after time, name drop about folks he thinks he knows, write about a movie that never, not once, has been planned for production…and The Star, while flawed is writing poorly crafted and researched stories?????? Let’s be Clear! Not a single major agency be they CAA-ICM-WME-United, know of or send any serious level or up and coming comedian to his club…that ended years ago after they figured out who he was and how he annoyed and tried to push himself on some of then then might be successful acts that played his room. Oh and last time I wrote about this paper thin zero he called my wife like a little girl saying I was always nice to you blah balh balh…as if she cared or was involved…
So giving space to a blowhard fool and then even writing about the Star, really is quite something to observe.
Geezus Whitt,
Get up on the wrong side of the bed today or something?
Au contraire, I’ve been a pretty close friend of Kate and her sister Ann from the get go. A bit less so the past six years since I moved to LA, but I’ve been in pretty close contact since this all unfolded. I just haven’t quoted by name per a request.
You on the other hand, are stone cold guilty of making a supposition that happens to be totally incorrect. Not sure how or why, but…
I have had Kate and Andy to my house for drinks, my (ex) wife sang karaoke with Kate and Ann at the party at the Rockhill Club I mentioned. I sent her Christmas gifts to New York every year until the past few. And yes, I have her exact mailing address and I her cell number.
Fame groupie?
You’re free to make that call if you like. As for Craig…
Maybe the KC Star can make up for the Spade gaffe by covering the suicide of Anthony Bourdain more accurately.
Ask and you will receive…
They rattled of three or four BBQs Bourdain ate at here years ago