Tag Archives: Kansas City Star

Hearne: Sizzling Courtroom Testimony Paints Lawrence CiCi’s Owner as a Dirtbag

Posted on March 20, 2015 by admin

For more than a year the obvious went unaddressed by the mainstream media in Kansas City, Lawrence and Topeka… Only KC Confidential reported that there was something very fishy about 52 year-old CiCi’s Pizza owner Harold Sasko shacking up with 17 year-old hottie Sarah McLinn … Continue reading →

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Hearne: USA Today Rocks Monday’s Lawrence Journal World

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Hearne Christopher Jr.

Longtime subscribers to the Kansas City Star probably remember its Monday editions as the lightest of the week… Light in weight and light in content. That’s because the Star fields a skeleton newsroom  crew on weekends and which usually results in precious little … Continue reading →

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Hearne: One Up, One Down in the News Mag Game

Posted on February 24, 2015 by admin

Small world… Just as the Kansas City Star‘s weekly Sunday magazine was blowing taps, another newspaper weekly was  soaring to new heights, says former Star editor and reporter Jim Fitzpatrick… “That same day the New York Times redid their magazine,” Fitzpatrick … Continue reading →

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Hearne: Reading between the Lines @ 18th & Grand

Posted on February 22, 2015 by Hearne Christopher Jr.

“Running a newspaper can be a rough business.” So begins a story last week by Eric Adler in the Kansas City Star. Understatements aside, it’s a tale of another area newspaper, not the newspaper of record in Kansas City. Hey, it’s a lot easier to pin the tail … Continue reading →

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Steele: Why Star Downplayed NC Muslim Slaying

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Rich Steele

Each day the Kansas City Star emails “Your Morning News,” a summary of its Top 10 news stories of the day… Before opening my email, I guessed that the tragic slaying of three young Muslims – two of them female in … Continue reading →

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Steele: What Non-Hysterical Kansas School Budget Reporting Looks Like

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Rich Steele

Kudos to Bryan Lowry of the Wichita Eagle‘s Topeka Bureau for his analytical look at education funding in Kansas… A sentence as balanced as the following has not graced the Kansas City Star since it had daily competition: “Some lawmakers … Continue reading →

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Steele: The Star Is Wrong About ‘Pianogate’

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Rich Steele

“So maybe the ‘optics’ are unfortunate,” reads the opening sentence in the Kansas City Star editorial on Pianogate, “but the Kansas City, Kan., school board ought to be applauded for investing in its students.” For starters, any editor who uses “optics” … Continue reading →

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Steele: The Media ‘Misremember’ a Lot of Stuff

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Rich Steele

NBC anchorman Brian Williams has taken more fire over his remarks about Iraq than he ever took over Iraq itself… In the process, Williams has added a handy new locution to the lexicon of the disingenuous, the word “misremember.” A … Continue reading →

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Hearne: The Star is Right, Sumner Piano Controversy a Non Issue

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Hearne Christopher Jr.

All of you who think I’ve got an undying hate of the Kansas City Star take notice… I’m just as capable of praising them at times as I am of bagging on them.  Yeah, it’s far easier to criticize and … Continue reading →

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Steele: KCTV Risks PC Blowback, Praises City Union Mission

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Rich Steele

In a recent piece on the City Union Mission, KCTV5 did a positive story about the excellent work the Mission has been doing for the last 90 years with the area’s homeless… Notably, KCTV5 did so without mentioning the Mission’s policy on … Continue reading →

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Hearne: Pitch Publisher Bites the Dust Sans Explanation

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Hearne Christopher Jr.

Were the publisher of the Kansas City Star to mysteriously step down, you can bet your bottom dollar The Pitch would be all over covering the story-behind-the story… So while it’s understandable, it’s still a little odd that the alternative … Continue reading →

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Steele: Oh No, ‘Lobbyists’ See Brownback Budget

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Rich Steele

The Sam Brownback budget is to the editors at the Kansas City Star what Moby Dick was to Ahab, what Bill Clinton was to Monica, what snow is to CNN (Juno, anyone?)–an unhealthy obsession bordering on mania… The latest breathtaking … Continue reading →

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Steele: More of Those Mischievous “Teens”

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Rich Steele

The Kansas City Star headlined its story on the recent water park death of a young black girl, “Three KC teens charged with murder in slaying of 14-year-old Alexis Kane.” The Star is hardly unique in its use of the … Continue reading →

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Steele: Star Goes OCD on Brownback Budget

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Rich Steele

In the same week that the Kansas City Star will editorialize rhapsodically about Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech, one in which he will lay out the numerous new ways in which he plans to keep increasing the national … Continue reading →

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Steele: Do Black Lives Really Matter in Missouri?

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Rich Steele

The Kansas City Star reports rather matter-of-factly that for the fourth time in the last five years, Missouri led the nation in the percentage of its black citizens who were victims of homicide… Quick: name two black people in the … Continue reading →

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Sutherland: Camp of the Saints

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Dwight D. Sutherland, Jr.

Forty years ago a French author, Jean Raspail, wrote a powerful polemic against multiculturalism… Translated into English by Norman Shapiro, a Harvard faculty member, it was roundly condemned at the time as racist, hateful, etc., when it was published here … Continue reading →

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Steele: Star, Why Bother to “talk about race”?

Posted on January 13, 2015 by Rich Steele

Why Bother to talk if the FYI section series– “After Ferguson, let’s talk about race, Kansas City“–is as skewed and dishonest as the last half century of such articles? The article opens, “In the months since Michael Brown was killed, some … Continue reading →

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Steele: Shawnee Shoot-Out Stumps Star

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Rich Steele

Without a hint of irony, the Star headlined its Sunday coverage of the lethal Shawnee Mission shoot-out, “Shawnee gun shop co-owner is remembered as a gentle giant and a loving husband.” The editors apparently do not understand that “gentle giant” … Continue reading →

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Steele: Star Uncovers Plot to Keep Kansas Women Out of Office

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Rich Steele

Some called the fact that no women currently hold statewide office in Kansas a coincidence–Duh! But the Star’s Dave Helling prefers the more conspiratorial explanation, namely that “a toxic political culture” has driven the weaker sex away. Confirms state rep Stephanie … Continue reading →

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Hearne: Shot Dead ‘She’s A Pistol’ Owner Neither Martyr nor Hero

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Hearne Christopher Jr.

Live by the sword, die by the sword… That’s the sad reality – and as good a way as any – to  describe the death of a small time Shawnee gun shop owner that got killed last week in a wild west style … Continue reading →

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