Curses, foiled again…
It’s not easy trying to stay on top of local news when you’re hemorrhaging red ink. Take the Kansas City Star‘s story Sunday about Kansas CVity figure skating champion John Coughlin.
The two time U.S. pairs figure skating champion committed suicide here Friday and the newspaper ran a soft ball story about him being suspended for “misconduct” that could range anywhere from bullying to hazing to mental abuse. Almost forgot, one additional possibility being sexual abuse.
Absent any actual reporting – even though the dude was from KC and his father a retired police officer – the newspaper ran only Facebook quotes from his sister and coach talking about what a nice guy he was and how he had not received “due process.”
But for what?
Instead of drilling down for anything approaching an answer – the Star’s sports hands on deck were too busy fawning over the Chiefs -while USA Today was busy reporting the actual news that Coughlin “was facing three reports of sexual misconduct against him, two of them involving minors.”
In addition to getting scooped on the reason for Coughlin’s suspension, the Star missed the suspension story period that USA Today ran on January 7th and included Coughlin’s denial of the charges against him.
Never glorify anyone who commits murder.
Kinda funny, but the jock sniffers at the newspaper to this day have never bothered to complete the reported news as to what Coughlin was accused of the seemed to have triggered his suicide.
Weird…not to mention lame.