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Kansas City Star Runs Flak For Reporters Drunken Son

September 16, 2009 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

It’s always sad when the son of someone famous gets tangled up with the law. But even if sad, it is one ting that newspapers love because it gives them something salacious to excite their readers. Naturally, the first paragraph nearly always includes the name of the troubled scion as well as the name of his famous father or mother, especially if they are politicians.

But the Kansas City Star recently bucked this top-of-the-story outing of the parents of a troublemaker with the Sept. 11 tale of a young man that tangled with the Kansas City Police Chief at a KC Irish Fest event. According to the Chief this young man was incensed that the Chief was saving a spot near a band stage for a handicapped boy. The young man got so angry he dumped his beer all over the chief.

The Kansas City Star gave us all sorts of details, of course. It told us of the pithy line that the Chief says he delivered to the drunken man as he arrested him and detailed the scene as the beer was thrown. There was only one thing that got short shrift in the story: the name of the beer throwing young man.
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KC Star: Republicans Afraid of Limbaugh, Uses Democratic Press Release to ‘Prove’ It

April 23, 2009 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Yael T. Abouhalkah is all excited to let the readers of the Kansas City Star know that he’s found another Republican politician that has had to grovel at the feet of Rush Limbaugh, apologizing to the radio giant for a slight cast his way. And to “prove” it Abouhalkah used a press release from the Democratic National Campaign Committee that said so. Yeah, nice unbiased source there, Abouhalkah.

Seriously, does Abouhalkah imagine that a Democrat Party press release is an unbiased source about what is happening between a Republican lawmaker and Rush Limbaugh? No wonder newspapers are falling on such tough times. If Abouhalkah is any indication, the definition of common words aren’t even any longer understood in the Star’s newsroom. Words like “source,” “unbiased,” “legitimate,” and “veracity” seem to be foreign to the folks at the Star. With such a failure to understand the very basics of journalism, its no wonder readers are abandoning newspapers in droves.

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KCStar’s Kraske: McCain Win is ‘Jim Crow… Invited to Dinner’

November 2, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Yet another writer from a lefty paper is here to tell us all that McCain and all his followers are racists. You see, if McCain wins, Steve Kraske imagines in his latest column that all blacks will feel that Jim Crow is back and the rest of the Democratic Party will be “angry at the world.” So, a McCain win will be the return of Jim Crow? Isn’t that an awfully irresponsible lie to promulgate, Mr. Kraske?

Kraske ruminates about how horrible it will be if McCain beats The One at the polls on Tuesday. But, he gets quite a lot of his analysis wrong, not surprisingly.

Just imagine it: One more loss for the Democratic Party in a race for the White House, its ninth in 14 elections. All those young people and first-time voters excited about Obama, eager to see a dynamic new figure in charge, let down, dispirited, disillusioned by the outcome.

Unfortunately for Kraske’s fevered imagination, Gallup has found that no more young people have registered to vote this time than they did in 2004, so this avalanche of new, young voters has turned out to be a myth. There really won’t be that many new, young voters feeling all “dispirited” and the like.

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