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Hearne: Whitlock Channels, Dumbs Down LeBron, to Stage Reality ‘Explanation’ on Local Radio/Cable
Silliness, thy name is Whitlock…
Following a 12-week standoff with the Kansas City Star, newly dispensed with sports scribe Jason Whitlock is borrowing a page from LeBron James recent ESPN reality show, “The Decision.” The difference being that instead of a worldwide audience on a major cable channel, W has gone begging on Twitter for local media to cough up enough cash pay to buy his mom for a plane ticket to fly in and host the show on a local radio and limited access cable. Continue reading
Hearne: Time to Snuff Liberty Memorial’s Fake Flame
I’ve said it before…
It’s time to do away with the phony-baloney fake flame atop Continue reading
Hearne: Expendables II, Twittering While Rome Burns. Life After Hearne, Posnanski & Whitlock
Nobody is irreplaceable, right?
I get a little dose of that every time I look in the mirror and think back to Sun scribe Steve Rose’ prediction that long after most of the print journalistic Jurassics were gone, I’d still be choking out columns at the Continue reading
Shauna: Mad Men & Military Fashions to Center Stage for Fall
Buckle up…
For many the dog days of homework, classrooms, and detention are about to return.Yes, Virginia, this week is the official start of BACK TO SCHOOL!!! And with fall on the horizon, it’s time to jump ahead and check out the upcoming season’s hottest trends.
Between the new ideas of revamping your military-esque pieces and the hot, sophisticated ladieswear that is so on point this season, one thing’s for sure; this fall’s fashions are sure not to disappoint.
*Think MAD MEN…
The femininity of the 1950s and 1960s makes a huge return with ubber ladylike sophisticated silhouettes that accentuate a woman’s curves rather than try to straighten and flatten them out. Continue reading
Hearne: Whitlock in Paycheck Stare Down with Star
This just in…
An unnamed source close to a pal of absentee Kansas City Star sports scribe Jason Whitlock says a salary dispute lies at the heart of the big fella’s two-month plus, unexplained absence from the newspaper.
“An insider at the Star told me that Whitlock texted another (national) sports reporter, saying he’s not at liberty to say this publicly but ‘I’m in a contract dispute with the Kansas City Star. Two years ago they cut my salary due to the financial issues the Star was having. I reluctantly accepted it, hoping it was for the short term. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case.’ “
There’s more… Continue reading
Hearne: More Layoffs, Possible Pay Cuts Coming to KC Star
It’s like this…
One reason it’s proving so difficult to bump embattled Kansas City Star sports columnist Jason Whitlock’s salary:
More layoffs and/or cutbacks appear to be on the way, sources say. Continue reading
Hearne: Wanted, Not-So-Secret Mission Hills Santa
Little help?
Calling all Kris Kingles…
The Hills magazine wants to profile somebody who has the seasonal habit (and resume) of donning a Santa suit and playing Jolly Old Soul during the Christmas holidays. Continue reading
Hearne: The Jason Whitlock Kansas City Star Vacation Planner
What’s in a word?
Plenty in the case of gone-with-the-wind Kansas City Star sports scribe Continue reading
Hearne: The Sunday Want Ads, Join KC Confidential
In a few weeks a man named Lazarus will raise this site – not from the dead – but to wuthering, new heights… Sound simple? It’s not. That said, the 18 month journey of KC Confidential is poised to embark … Continue reading
Hearne: Lady Gaga at Sprint, the Good, the Bad & the Hillbilly
About this week’s Lady Gaga extravaganza at the Sprint Center…
“It was, uh, overall a good show,” says attendee Andy Lewellen. “My only problem with such a new entertainer is that they come out and they only have like six good songs.”
As evidenced by the 11 paragraph review in the Kansas City Star with but two scant sentences describing the songs that were performed.
“It was kind of like at the beginning the first two songs were good, then in the middle there was kind of a lull and then she ended the show back on top with four of her good songs,” says Lewellen, co-owner of Lew’s and The Well in Waldo. “Overall it was good – I just expected more out of her being the icon that she is – you know, the new Madonna. Continue reading
Hearne: Glazer Calls on Star, Whitlock to Come Clean, Wrist Slaps Mellinger, Disses D-Bowe
The most bogus bit of “news” the Kansas City Star has printed maybe ever? 
That it’s sports columnist Jason Whitlock is merely vacationing.
“Obviously, there’s a problem,” says Stanford’s Continue reading
Starbeams: When the Chiefs Mattered, Lady Gaga at Sprint & Commies in Kansas?
Business is good in St Joseph as Chiefs training camp has hit the town. 
The hotels are jammed and St. Joe residents are buying Chiefs clothing and trinkets and are uber-excited to have the team playing in their town. Continue reading
Star Search: Mindless Headlines & Continued Silence on Star Newsroom’s Top Topic
Been awhile since I trod this tired road, but what the heck…
With the newsroom of the Kansas City Star literally consumed with the topic of what-in-the-world is going on between the newspaper and volatile sports columnist Jason Whitlock, the paper continues to bunker.
Internally and externally.
Talk about W’s future at the Star has reached beyond critical mass among reporters and editors. Driven by the unexplained resignation Friday of sports editor Holly Lawton and the big galoot’s two-month plus equally unexplained absence.All of which has lead to absolutely zero in the way of open discourse from management with the readership, general public or Continue reading
Hearne: The Lawton Chronicles; Truth in Journalism or Trippy Tap Dance?
You make the call…
With the entire newsroom of the Kansas City Star abuzz with wonder about missing sports link Jason Whitlock, from Continue reading
Hearne: Whitlock to Return to Star, Never-Ending-Story to be Continued?
The blaring headline on the front page of today’s Kansas City Star: BACKDROP OF UNCERTAINTY AS CRUCIAL BATTLE BEGINS…
The local newspaper of record finally comes clean on the bizarre, extended absence of its lead sportswriter Jason Whitlock?
Fat chance!
But deep inside the pages of Sunday’s Continue reading
Hearne: Cloying Whitlock Sets Alarm for Midnight
You got it, you flaunt it, you still got it…
After two months of a high-profile, behind-the-scenes tap dance, Kansas City Star columnist Jason Whitlock appears poised to come-out, come-out, wherever he are.
“Kansas City’s Andrew Breitbarts have about 10 hours left in “Lie About Whitlock Month,” he twitterered today around 2 p.m.. “Myth Albom isn’t only King of False Narratives.”
Cute…
“I think he’s saying that he’s back at midnight,” says one recipient. “That at about midnight tonight his next column will drop or whatever. To me that means he’s going to be back in the Sunday paper.” Continue reading
Hearne: Taking a Walk on the Wild Side with Charles Ferruzza
This just in… Wanna piece of me, up close and personal? Good luck! Try stalking maybe. But if you’re willing to settle for some real time, live in the flesh conversation, tune into KKFI-FM today from noon to 1 p.m. … Continue reading
Hearne: Mystery of Star Sports Editor’s Unexplained Exit Centers on Whitlock
In the wide world of sports, bigger mysteries exist…
That said, in the local scheme of things, the sudden and unexplained resignation of Kansas City Star sports editor Holly Lawton today raises a lot more questions than there appear to be benign answers for.
Why after two years on the job would Lawton walk away from a possibly six-figure paycheck during uncertain economic times for a position to-be-named-later? Continue reading
Hearne: ‘King of Sting’ Craig Glazer Rides Again!
Some followers of all things KC Confidential say they’re tired of Stanford’s main man Craig Glazer honking his own horn…
Allow me to do the honors this time out.
Glazer has inked a deal for a followup to his 2008 true crime hardcover book, Continue reading
Hearne on the Street: Wizards Win Over Man U Questioned
How midwestern insecure are we?
The way some Continue reading
