Journalists love it when people critique their stories by sniping, “Slow news day!”
Meaning of course, the writer must have been truly bored to have choked out something so disinteresting and mundane. Sometimes readers play that card because they disagree with or simply don’t like what they’ve just read. And sometimes it’s legit.
The fact is, when you’re a sportswriter for a small midwestern city and the jig is up for the home teams, things can get a little dicey…a lot dicey even.
Such is the case the past two days in the columns by one of the local newspaper’s brightest sports stars, Sam Mellinger.
Are Kansas City Chiefs fans really so bored they need to relive the 13 worst plays of the past season by quarterback Alex Smith? Maybe.
In a world where “fantasy sports leagues” are now a mainstream proposition, no pursuit seems too trivial for some jock sniffers and sports geeks.
Then again, drumming up sympathy for dreaded rival St. Louis is going too far.
It doesn’t even make sense.
First off, few locals give a damn about what happens to our stuck up neighbors to the east.
Short of North Korea blowing up the arch, there’s little love lost.
And how dastardly can it be for Los Angeles to attempt to reclaim its Rams football team – the very team St. Louis stole from that fair city 20 years earlier?
That’s called payback, friends. Continue reading →
Some called the fact that no women currently hold statewide office in Kansas a coincidence–Duh!
Hearne: KCC Comments Moderation Problem is History
But somehow, some way, something very wicked – not to mention strange – came KC Confidential‘s way recently. Kinda like that mysterious flu that has people chunking in public while waiting to return their Christmas gifts at Oak Park Mall’s H&M store.
After adding two new words to KCC’s moderated comments section list – joining such stalwarts as the F Word, N Word and P Word – suddenly each and every comment submitted to the site went straight to moderation. Meaning, yours truly had to go online, log in and approve them individually.
Not that I minded doing it, but I do have a life, and readers shouldn’t have to wait to express their angst or admiration or to add some helpful words of wisdom.
Way too tedious. Continue reading →