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Friday, May 22, 2009
Friday May 22 -- Got news or an update?
If you have news or an update, leave it in comments. . . .
The half white/half black Obooma’s racist message to white men, You have no place here. ------ “The Obamas are sending ripples through the art world as they put the call out to museums, galleries and private collectors that they’d like to borrow modern art by African-American, Asian, Hispanic and female artists for the White House.”
I don't pay a lot of attention to national issues and those I do check into have enough written about them from various sources to figure things out.
I'm far more interested in local issues and, again, I know enough people to find out what I need to know (which is usually a lot more than what I'd get from the newspapers).
The Red Star is below the level of ‘sucks.’ It is ruining the environment for no good reason. The ‘sucks’ starts on page one for those interested in ‘sucks’ locations.
Start with the editorial page and work outwards. If they fired the entire editorial board and used the money to hire reporters they might have a start to a recovery. Certainly their reputation would instantly improve.
Unfortunately, that would not change who the editors are and the publisher.
The deeper issue goes to trust. I don't know at this point all of the stories they're not covering.
It should tell you something, if you know anything about KC media, that I stopped while I was out to pick up a copy of The Pitch. I have far more trust that if there is corruption being written about in KC it will be an expose in The Pitch and an endorsement from The Star.
You won't be satisfied with that answer and who cares. If you think it's such a great paper, subscribe and give them a hand.
Take a look at Barb Shelly's column on health care. It's the third, or fourth on this topic in the last week, or so.
Aside from flogging this dead horse (ideological in this case) Shelly is really one of The Star's leading handmaidens to corruption. Perhaps I'll do a piece for Kevin's guest blogger reviewing Barb's endorsements in the recent elections.
As usual Judge is also trashing Republicans. I will say this for Judge though. He is extremely biased and always approaches things from the left, but before they took his blog away, you could say anything you wanted about him, or his drawings without fear of censorship.
Again, any paper, blog etc, is more than just what happens in one day. The Star's editorial page has a long and tawdry history. Yes, it's almost all left all of the time, but the real gripe I have is what they do to perpetuate corruption in the metro area.
***It's the third, or fourth on this topic in the last week***
Shelly can opine about anything she wants, as often as she wants, if she thinks the issue is important to a lot of people, as the Missouri health care legislation certainly was.
**handmaidens to corruption*** ***the real gripe I have is what they do to perpetuate corruption in the metro area***
I'll do a piece on Shelly's recent endorsements, but a couple of classics are the judicial race matching a reform candidate and a judge accused of being drunk on the bench. The Star endorsed the drunk and the Congressional race between Jamie Metzl and Emmanuel Cleaver.
Both are ardent leftists, but Metzl was squeaky clean, and Cleaver was the baggage laden candidate of the metro area's corrupt establishment. The Star, of course, endorsed Cleaver.
We could also talk about The Star's "award" from Planned Parenthood. What kind of a paper accepts an award named for a genocidal racist?
That's all you get until the review of Shelly's latest. It really doesn't matter since you don't care anyway. I could play a tape of Zieman accepting bribes from the local Mafia don and you'd make excuses, but thanks for asking. There's always more where that came from from our friends at The Lackey.
Ooh, ooh, I'll do one on The Star's silence over the looting of one of the local foundations by their leftist pals. That will be a fun one also.
15 comments:
Checked The Star. It still sucks. Moved on to the Wichita Eagle. Same there (for those tired of KC news).
In relation to the latest financial moves, borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. That action rarely works over the long haul.
The half white/half black Obooma’s racist message to white men, You have no place here.
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“The Obamas are sending ripples through the art world as they put the call out to museums, galleries and private collectors that they’d like to borrow modern art by African-American, Asian, Hispanic and female artists for the White House.”
John - just curious, but where do you get your "approved" news?
~byon~
byron, he gets his "approved news" from the Farmer's Almanac and from Michael Savage.
I keep waiting for him to be more specific about how today's Star "sucks." Does he have specific examples from today's paper?
I don't pay a lot of attention to national issues and those I do check into have enough written about them from various sources to figure things out.
I'm far more interested in local issues and, again, I know enough people to find out what I need to know (which is usually a lot more than what I'd get from the newspapers).
So what specific article or articles in today's Star caused you to say that it "sucks," John?
The Red Star is below the level of ‘sucks.’ It is ruining the environment for no good reason. The ‘sucks’ starts on page one for those interested in ‘sucks’ locations.
Start with the editorial page and work outwards. If they fired the entire editorial board and used the money to hire reporters they might have a start to a recovery. Certainly their reputation would instantly improve.
Unfortunately, that would not change who the editors are and the publisher.
The deeper issue goes to trust. I don't know at this point all of the stories they're not covering.
It should tell you something, if you know anything about KC media, that I stopped while I was out to pick up a copy of The Pitch. I have far more trust that if there is corruption being written about in KC it will be an expose in The Pitch and an endorsement from The Star.
You won't be satisfied with that answer and who cares. If you think it's such a great paper, subscribe and give them a hand.
///Start with the editorial page and work outwards.///
What specifically "sucks" on the editorial page today?
Take a look at Barb Shelly's column on health care. It's the third, or fourth on this topic in the last week, or so.
Aside from flogging this dead horse (ideological in this case) Shelly is really one of The Star's leading handmaidens to corruption. Perhaps I'll do a piece for Kevin's guest blogger reviewing Barb's endorsements in the recent elections.
As usual Judge is also trashing Republicans. I will say this for Judge though. He is extremely biased and always approaches things from the left, but before they took his blog away, you could say anything you wanted about him, or his drawings without fear of censorship.
Again, any paper, blog etc, is more than just what happens in one day. The Star's editorial page has a long and tawdry history. Yes, it's almost all left all of the time, but the real gripe I have is what they do to perpetuate corruption in the metro area.
***It's the third, or fourth on this topic in the last week***
Shelly can opine about anything she wants, as often as she wants, if she thinks the issue is important to a lot of people, as the Missouri health care legislation certainly was.
**handmaidens to corruption***
***the real gripe I have is what they do to perpetuate corruption in the metro area***
Specific examples? Evidence? Proof?
Shelly is a joke! A real bad joke at that.
I'll do a piece on Shelly's recent endorsements, but a couple of classics are the judicial race matching a reform candidate and a judge accused of being drunk on the bench. The Star endorsed the drunk and the Congressional race between Jamie Metzl and Emmanuel Cleaver.
Both are ardent leftists, but Metzl was squeaky clean, and Cleaver was the baggage laden candidate of the metro area's corrupt establishment. The Star, of course, endorsed Cleaver.
We could also talk about The Star's "award" from Planned Parenthood. What kind of a paper accepts an award named for a genocidal racist?
That's all you get until the review of Shelly's latest. It really doesn't matter since you don't care anyway. I could play a tape of Zieman accepting bribes from the local Mafia don and you'd make excuses, but thanks for asking. There's always more where that came from from our friends at The Lackey.
Ooh, ooh, I'll do one on The Star's silence over the looting of one of the local foundations by their leftist pals. That will be a fun one also.
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