Every day for the last week I’ve expected to read or hear that Fox Sports has fired or suspended Jason Whitlock for the outrageous Twitter comment he made about women and New York Knicks’ sensation Jeremy Lin. I don’t know how he did it, but with one little tweet he managed to paint women as [...]
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Calling Fox Sports: Anybody home? Did you notice that Jason Whitlock is a misogynist, as well as a racist?
Posted in journalism, politics, sports, Uncategorized, tagged Anthony Federicorfox, ESPN, Fox Sports, Jason Whitlock, Jeremy Lin, Max Bretos on February 20, 2012 | 26 Comments »
Red-light-camera “scoop”: A story that wasn’t ready for prime time
Posted in journalism, Uncategorized on January 31, 2012 | 11 Comments »
A week after The Star ran its badly flawed red-light-camera story, aspects of the debacle are still coming to light. Steve Glorioso, a public relations consultant for American Traffic Solutions (ATS), a private company that helps runs the red-light program for the city, contends that reporter Christine Vendel and her editors rushed the story into [...]
Passing thoughts on people making news or writing it
Posted in journalism, Uncategorized, tagged Joe Paterno, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Thomas L. Friedman on January 23, 2012 | 19 Comments »
No. 1: Joe Paterno Why didn’t he quit, or why wasn’t he shown the door, several years ago? As it is, he remained the face of Penn State during the worst big-time-college-football, sex-abuse scandal in history, as far as I can tell. If he had quit several years ago, the backlash from the scandal (including [...]
Hope for a turnaround at The Kansas City Star? It’s in the hands of new publisher Mi-Ai Parrish
Posted in journalism, Uncategorized, tagged Mi-Ai Parrish, The Kansas City Star on January 17, 2012 | 40 Comments »
On Monday, I met Mi-Ai Parrish and heard her speak for the first time since she arrived in Kansas City last August to succeed Mark Zieman as Kansas City Star publisher. Parrish spoke to the 40 Years Ago Column Club at the Plaza III restaurant. A crowd of about 35 was on hand, including longtime [...]
Seamus — the Irish (car) setter
Posted in journalism, Uncategorized, tagged Gail Collins, Meghan Daum, Mitt Romney, Seamus, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times on January 16, 2012 | 9 Comments »
I want to preface this piece by saying I’m no fan of Mitt Romney. In fact, I think he’s the most opportunistic and malleable of the candidates for the Republican nomination for President. He will say just about anything to get elected, which, fortunately, probably isn’t going to happen. President Obama is the only candidate [...]
KC Star shines, along with Crennel, Orton and the Chiefs
Posted in journalism, Uncategorized, tagged Kyle Orton, Romeo Crennel, Sam Mellinger, The Kansas City Chiefs, The Kansas City Star on December 19, 2011 | 10 Comments »
It’s on days like this that only The Kansas City Star can put everything in context. I’m talking, of course, about the Chiefs incredible win over the Packers yesterday in Romeo Crennel’s debut as head coach of the Chiefs. I was yelling and screaming at the TV like I haven’t done in a long time. [...]
Janet L. Robinson fired at The New York Times; converted it from a regional to national newspaper
Posted in journalism, Uncategorized, tagged Janet L. Robinson, The New York Times on December 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Being a news-business junkie, I was very surprised at a business-front story in today’s New York Times announcing that Janet L. Robinson, chief executive of The Times the last seven years, was “retiring.” Robinson, who will long be remembered as the person who oversaw The Times’ conversion from a regional to national newspaper in the [...]
That sure is a “hansom” horse-drawn carriage, mister
Posted in journalism, Uncategorized, tagged The New York Times on December 14, 2011 | 9 Comments »
By now, many of you know that I have a keen eye for unusual corrections in newspapers. That’s mostly because, as a reporter for 25 years and and editor for almost 12, I lived in fear of winding up on the correction page. (It happened more often than I care to admit.) Occasionally, I would [...]
Rod Egojevich: Another self-obsessed politician brought to his knees
Posted in Uncategorized, journalism, politics, tagged Rod Blagojevich, Patrick Fitzgerald on December 8, 2011 | 9 Comments »
The braggadocio and downright impudence of some political crooks before they are convicted often amazes me. Take the case of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison for his conviction on 18 felony counts of corruption. As you’ll recall, Blagojevich was charged in April 2009 with, among [...]
“Up, Up and Away”: A new, modern airport terminal is headed our way
Posted in journalism, Uncategorized, tagged Kansas City International Airport on November 23, 2011 | 22 Comments »
Seventeen months ago, I wrote this about Kansas City International Airport: “KCI is the dullest, dreariest major airport I’ve ever seen, and it’s horribly inefficient as far as check-in, security and concessions. A move to a single terminal — an inevitability — can’t happen soon enough for me.” In that blog, I also said, “A [...]
