Remember Rise Up? No? How soon you forget. That’s the weekly supplement about race relations that ran in newspapers with a combined circ of 4 million -- only to flame out last summer after barely two months of existence. Rise Up was last heard from in August when it suspended publication, claiming it was ramping up for even greater distribution. After that, nothing. Dan Margolies of The Kansas City Star discovers the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, publisher of the Los Angeles Daily News, is suing Rise Up for more than $93,000 for an unspecified breach of contract.
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They were so good at race relations, that in the mere two months they were in bidness, we gots a new president.
As to the money they owe, it’s typical for libs to do a “job” and bankrupt others.
Just look at the stimulus bill, GM, CA.
What a bunch of poop.
A few days old? How about many months. Pony Express would have beat you.
Yeah, Writersweekly.com broke this story back in September.
Janice wanted to help race relations, just like Jesse Jackson?
RiseUp is the brainchild of Dr. Janice Ellis, a former Kansas City, Mo., mayoral candidate, renowned writer and businesswoman.
"I started RiseUp because I wanted to provide a readily accessible tool to help us solve some of the problems we face as a society when it comes to race relations," said Ellis, publisher of RiseUp.
Ellis said she feels the time is right for RiseUp to help Americans start a conversation about race and ethnicity - something usually approached with timidity or fear.
The Kansas City Star
By MATT CAMPBELL
Janice Ellis often prefaces her vision of the future by offering audiences a glimpse of her past:
She knows what it is like to grow up black in the segregated South, to be poor and to be a single mother.
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Who didn't guess this sad little story? Not proud of her country I'll bet!
Who cares when the story broke? Who knew there was such interest in the KC Star until recently? I would guess there are as many posters from the KC Star, as from the CA Bees. That is great!
The KC Star has nothing to do with this story.
Rise Up was an outside printing client of the print pavilion. The print pavilion has many outside clients besides printing the daily paper.
5:40 It won't be long til the hand that feeds you bites it off. So deserved.
This is a 8 month old story and you complain about newspapers.
The KC Star has nothing to do with this story.
Rise Up was an outside printing client of the print pavilion.
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That is not true. The KC Star and several of their people were right in the middle of this flim flam. In fact, it was KC Star people that where the officers of this scam outfit before it was found to be a fraud.
6:29 Your wrong. Name the KC Star people who were the officers.
6:29 Your wrong. Name the KC Star people who were the officers.
No one cared a shit about this story until Friday the 13th. What’s the crap about the date? It wasn’t a story until the lawsuit, and then the KC Red Star writes about it again. Now we are discussing it again.
Sorry folks hanging around to find something stale. This is a new slant to an old story. No wonder you folks are circling the drain!
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Posted on Fri, Feb. 13,
LA newspaper group sues RiseUp
By DAN MARGOLIES
The Kansas City Star
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RiseUp, a Kansas City-based magazine about race relations that briefly ran as an insert in several major newspapers before suspending publication, is being sued by a California newspaper chain....
Given the timing of this sort of propaganda rag, I would wonder where the seed money came from. I will make a wild guess. Millions upon millions of cash poured in, $2at a time from little people.
- I will make a wild guess. Millions upon millions of cash poured in, $2at a time from little--
You would be dead wrong.
I'm with 6:49-what current KC Star employees or McClatchy officers were affiliated with this failed start up?
You can read complaints, and about journalists trying to get paid.
12 COMPLAINTS-RiseUp
Publications/Ellis Management Marketing
http://forums.writersweekly.com/viewtopic.php?t=8186
There are some names in this article someone might recognize.
I did see they paid 60 cents a word.
UPDATE: It appears one of the victims of RIseUp has filed a lawsuit against the company. Go to:
https://www.courts.mo.gov/casenet/cases/searchCases.do
Janice Ellis, who once ran for Mayor of Kansas City, was listed as the founder/publisher of RiseUp. Her husband, E. Frank Ellis, the CEO of Swope Parkway Health Center, was listed as Chairman and CEO of RiseUp.
THIS PUBLISHER DID *NOT* PAY THE WRITERS' BALANCES IN DECEMBER, AS SHE CLAIMED SHE WOULD DO. THE WRITERS ARE STILL OWED THOUSANDS.
Perhaps like Lokeman, the springboard to get the other papers was because the KC Star was the first client. Who bought into the this shaky deal, who went along with this insert for the Star?
Art Brisbane senior vice president and Doug Worgul was listed as the managing editor slimes. I understand there were even more minor players but we'll have to wait till tomorrow for those names.
Again, the leftists scurry like rats to avoid the association.
7:19 You'll never get names. They just post anonymous.
8:36 Art Brisbane is Not a KC Star employee or officer. You'll have to "wait till tomorrow for the other names"? Why, do you have to ask your Mommy. I'd rather be a leftist than just plain stupid.
Get the facts/names right. You've only had 8 months to do it.
They were both KC Star employees you lying sack of shit. And yes, we will get the names of the others without a doubt. The KC Star was neck deep in engineering this scam and was responsible for dragging the other stooges into it also.
9:36 "Lying sack of shit" and you don't know the names. I'd suggest you put your name on your post just so everyone will know just what a dumb ass you are. Your just covered with a pile of heated poop and can't get out.
Well one thing is for sure. The Star is great at covering up the criminal enterprises and other scandals that their people endeavor in. There is no doubt about that.
11:35 The Star covered up nothing it has been know for 8 months. Just because you don't know it, big deal. Either you don't or can't read the newspaper. On this story the newspapers wiped your ass with it.
9:36 You know NOTHING.
--ecause the KC Star was the first client. Who bought into the this shaky deal, who went along with this insert for the Star?--
KC Star was not a client.
It works just like Parade Magazine. Rise Up pays them to insert and deliver. They owe Los Angeles insertion and delivery fees. The Print Pavilion had a web press big enough to print this, it remains to be seen if there are any outstanding printing bills. Just another failed start up on the road of publishing.
RiseUp sounds like a scam to me.
Someone at the Star had to look at this racial drivel, and agree to insert it into their papers during the so-called election of an AA candidate. Free propaganda? What did RiseUp pay the Star? We need to know if any funds actually changed hands. A slight of hand deal, that would be a scandal, if there is one. Thinly veiled scheme sounds more like it to me, why disappear so fast? Also, it would be interesting to know if the first statement out of marketing was, “We are circulated by the KC Star.” Just like the 'Three Tires' smoke and mirrors!
Can we expect RiseUp facts from the KC Star anytime soon?
The downer and outers at the KC Stars are the ones that aren’t getting it about this new take on an old story. That a little put-up racial paper goes ‘tits up’ is not news. However, the lawsuit has brought new light to the deal, is news. Why did this little paper appear just before an election, and then disappear conveniently when no longer needed?
- We need to know if any funds actually changed hands. -
Of course money changed hands. Are you an idiot? Do you even know how publishing works?
The only story here is that the LA case got kicked over to Federal Circuit Court. No other story here than a failed start up. Move on, nothing to see here.
Ted McGinley is waiting in the green room.
This wasn't a failed start up. This was fraud from day one.
-it’s typical for libs to do a “job” and bankrupt others. -
Huh. Really? Cause it's been conservative Republican real estate developers who've stiffed me.
8:36 & 9:36 Tick, Tick, Tick.
I'm still waiting for the names. Did you not ask your mommy last night like you were suppose to do?
I'm just now getting to this post. Art Brisbane, former publisher of The Star, was on the RiseUp advisory board. There were other former Star employees there as well. Brisbane convinced the Star's current publisher, Zieman, to support RiseUp. The Star also printed the product, and as of this date is owed over $2 million. In fact, word is that the last round of cuts at The Star were directly tied to the failure of RiseUp and the $2-million-plus owed and that is why two of Bribane's good friends were cut - Hearne Christopher and Lee Judge.
The word is "FORMER" you claimed they are KC Star officers. Re-read your post @9:36.
I guess you are "the lying sack of shit".
-convinced the Star's current publisher, Zieman, to support RiseUp. -
I guess support means to take their money to insert Rise Up between Price Chopper coupons. We have the scandal of the century here folks.
I wonder if 90% of the commenters here understand what the 1st Amendment is. A raise of hands from every one who made it past 8th grade, please.
Hey 5:43-What's the Casenet number on that 2 million?
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