Category Archives: guest_shot
Paul Wilson: Carol Burnett Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts – February 14, 2013
The handicap parking was packed an hour before showtime… Not exactly a big surprise since the headliner was iconic, 79 year-old comic Carol Burnett. Clearly this was no Lady Gaga concert crowd. That said, my first encounter of the evening … Continue reading
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Kevin McGraw: Owner Looks Back @ News Room – Good, Bad, Ugly
Twelve years is not that long a time when I look back,… Twelve is actually an interesting number for me. I’m one of 12 children, there are 12 apostles and then there are the 12 days of Christmas. But enough … Continue reading
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Karash: Reflections on JoCo News Coverage
Hearne Christopher’s Johnson County Sun on Death Row? column made me pause and reflect on how much the JoCo news coverage scene has changed over the past 20 years.
Sadly, it has not changed for the better, despite the best efforts of a small group of people who continue to toil in that vineyard of news. In the late 1980s, when I moved to this area, local media organizations were locked in a pitched battle over Johnson County news.
The Sun came out twice a week and the Kansas City Star and Times operated as separate, competing bureaus in fast-growing JoCo land.
