It’s a strange kettle of fish…
On one hand KC newspaper of record loves the Kansas City Chiefs now that they’re on top of the world. Reminding us that the expression, “everybody loves a winner” is alive and well, even among the most jaded among us.
The only thing the Star loves more is bagging on folks with conservative views and cultural outlooks.
For example the newspaper has ridden hard and trashed up-and-coming Republican pol Josh Hawley from the get go. And now that Hawley had a high-profile lapse of judgement, the Star can’t bag on him enough.
Has there even been the slightest hint of fair-and-balanced coverage ever – before, during and or after Hawley’s current predicament? Of course not.
Saying even the most benign positive thing about anything Hawley would be the equivalent of devil worshiping, rooting for the old Oakland Raiders or supporting child pornography.
It’s not gonna happen.
Don’t get me wrong…
2017 Happy Birthday wishes from the Star to newly anointed racist Wm. Rockhill Nelson
At some point in time somebody on the Star editorial board is gonna raise his or her head and nail the team for its insensitivity to using Native American imagery via the team’s name, its corny tomahawk chop and phony Indian uprising war m music and chant.
Count on that.
Face it, now that the newspaper has confessed its longtime, historic past sins – celebrating racists like Plaza founder J.C. Nichols and the newspaper’s founder William Rockhill Nelson, they have no downside.
Because fessing up to those past sins – both real and imaged – has absolved Star editors reporters and columnists of pretty much everything and elevated them to being mostly above criticism.
All of that said, I can’t recall Star editor Mike Fannin coming clean about his DUIs, public acts of aggression and sexual harassment of a married female editor that answered to him directly and had to leave the newspaper and go through an undoubtedly nasty divorce
Might as well lay all the dirty laundry out for all to see.
Maybe after the Chiefs lose the Super Bowl or suffer some other athletic shortcoming, we can line up Fannin, Marty Schottenheimer, Andy Reid and Tyreek Hill alongside Josh Hawley and Donald Trump and have a good, old-fashioned journalistic beat down.
What’s the holdup anyway?
