I wrote about this some time ago and here I have to go again.
On the way to work today, I was listening--as I always do--to KCUR, the local NPR station through UMKC and heard their coverage of a Kansas City Business Journal article on real estate in Kansas City .
They told of how it's soft, at least, but that we are nowhere near as bad as other places in the country like Florida and California and Las Vegas, of course.
And that's all fine and good.
But what galls me, what really kills me is that this is just the kind of article The Kansas City Star should write, first of all, and should have written months ago.
Both the commercial residential real estate markets in town are so soft it's just neither pretty nor funny.
If you drive the most-prized Plaza area, and you know what you're looking for and at, you can see condominiums left and right that are empty and waiting for buyers.
And the same goes--all over town--for commercial real estate in general and retail in specific.
But do you think you'd see an article about this in the local newspaper in the last year?
Nope.
Absolutely not.
It's an important story. It could get them terrific readership. It needs to be covered.
But who's covering it?
The Kansas City Business Journal, first, and KCUR, second, by covering their, first article.
It's pathetic.
If the Star wants readership--and of course they have to--you'd think they would know to cover important local stories like these that no one else is better positioned to cover.
But they don't. Or won't.
And I have to come to one of two conclusions.
They either don't have enough imagination to know they should be covering stories like these--which I view as highly, highly unlikely and improbable--or they want to go soft on articles like these, dealing with business and real estate so they don't offend anyone's sensibilities in the business community. They don't want to come off as negative so as to put a further damper on business, at least in the minds of their potential advertisers.
And if the answer is the 2nd one--and I think it may well be--that's a great way to further kill a newspaper.
They'd rather send a reporter, instead of around the city, to South America, to report on the sex-trafficking trade.
Strange priorities, indeed.
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The Star is so befuddling in so many ways that I don't even bother trying to read it anymore.
It's to the point that the Star is rounding up the rear, after television, radio and bloggers. And that is unfortunate, because there is news that the daily paper does better then anyone else. The thing is, frequently, the Star is falling down on the routine reporting too.
The only thing they are doing any kind of quality job on is sports and even that has suffered in quality.
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