Wanna see what the "newspaper" of the future looks like?

It's already here.

Two examples:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/

What the newspaper of the future decidedly does NOT look like:

The Kansas City Star

http://www.kansascity.com

If you go to The New York Times site, not only does it look like the actual 3-dimensional paper in style and type, but you can search the paper each day for its own headline or a name or virtually anything from one of their stories and you will instantly go to the story you're looking for.

Try searching for one of the Star's headlines one day, on its own site.

Impossible.

And The Huffington Post? Other than being more national in scope, it's the nearly perfect place to find all kinds of socio-political (admittedly, mostly political) information and even humor. It's very relevant and up to date. It's becoming a "must-read", to keep up with what's going on. It will surely succeed.

In further sharp contrast to The Kansas City Star.

Sad. Really sad.

Someone needs to step in and fill the local void in local reporting for the Kansas City regional and metropolitan area.

So far, it's Tony's KC Blog (http://tonyskansascity.com) and Hearne Christopher's (at http://www.kcconfidential.com/).