Don’t look now, but Star reader repDerek Donovan‘s recently-sparked controversy over use of NFL team theWashington Redskinsname in the newspaper has blown up in his face… “A caller this morning expressed his incredulity thatThe Stardoesn’t normally print the name of Washingon’s NFL tea...
Would the so-called journalists – past and present – at the KC Star please get a grip… If memory serves, this “downtown ballpark” really got started around 15 years back when a business reporter at the newspaper from Buffalo, Kevin Collison, …Continue reading→ ...
While we’re talking about good newspaper stories… November 21, 2022 by jimmycsays On Sunday, The Kansas City Star published one of its best stories in recent months. It was the heartbreaking story of a 14-year-old Afghan immigrant, Rezwan Kohistani, who committed suicide last May after ...
The story integrates video, photos, graphics and personal profiles of the main players like that has never been done before by a newspaper. Rebecca Greenfield of The Atlantic Wire Web said the project “makes multimedia feel natural and useful, not just tacked on.” I saw the story on The ...
Banker / civic leader / force of natureR. Crosby Kemper Jr.hated theKansas City Star… Seriously. Kemper despised the newspaper so that six days after his January 2nd death, his obituary has yet to run in theStar. That’shighlyunusual. Because for someone in Kemper’s station of life it...
I’m no legal expert, but after spending more than two hours pouring over the legal filings between formerKansas City StarcolumnistSteve Pennand KC’s newspaper of record, I’m having a hard time coming up with one of Penn’s possible arguments that theStardidn’t file a motion to exclude...
Brisbane, a 59-year-old Harvard graduate, had two stints at The Star. A Long Island native, he started his newspaper career in 1976 at the Glen Cove (New York) Guardian. He began working for The Kansas City Times (the morning paper before The Star went to a single daily edition) in...
Here’s the kind of newspaper column that really irritates me… On the heels of Mack Rhoades’ decision to bolt from the athletic director’s job at the University of Missouri and take the same post at Baylor University, The Star’s Sam Mellinger posted a column slamming Rhoades as an abje...
Which brings me to my retro habit of pouring through the Kansas City Star newspaper each day. Continue reading → Posted in Hearne_Christopher | 13 Comments Hearne: Richard Pryor’s Daughter Rain a Pain Posted on April 1, 2014 by Hearne Christopher Jr. At some point being the kid of som...
“It’s not the place it was…I mean by this that when I drove down Ward Parkway 50 years ago, there was substance behind those walls. The people who lived there cared. There were adults in Kansas City running the city. You had an adult newspaper. You could tell the truth…When we...