KCPT and "Week In Review", Covering That White Person's Point of View

Yes sir and ma'am, Kansas City. If you're a contributor to KCPT, rest assured, Kansas City Public Television will cover the white person's point of view. And they'll do so with more white males than anyone else.

This week's version had, yes, two white men, one white woman--very blonde--and thank God for Eric Wesson, showing up week after week.They'll ask for money from everyone--including the local Hispanic community--but have a Hispanic, Latinx person on the show? Fuggedaboudit. I say again, in the year that the Kansas City Star so publicly apologized for covering only the white person's point of view over the years, KCPT keeps giving more of same old, same old. Stunning. Really stunning. And know this. I wouldn't write these things, time and again, if I thought what KCPT and PBS did and stood for was unimportant.

KCPT's "Week In Review", Keeping it White, Keeping it Male

Unbelievable. It's supposed to be "Kansas City Public Talevision" but their one weekly local news program is once again, mostly just white. And what isn't just white is very mostly just male.

Once again, tonight, our local PBS station, the one asking us to send them our money and who says they represent us all, had--count them--three white people and one token Black person, a Black man, Eric Wesson, God bless him, on their weekly news program. Two white men a white woman and Eric Wesson. That was it. No Hispanic. No two women. Nothing. That was it.Thank goodness Eric Wesson can and will show up every week. When the program was over, Kliff Kuehl, who runs KCPT, thanked us for sending in money and swore it's about representing us all. Hey, send in your money, folks. We represent you. Right.Our local paper, the Kansas City Star, apologizes for not representing all of us over the years. Then KCPT gives us this. Wow.

KCPT's Week In Review!!!

Whoo-hoo!!

Big, big news from Kansas City Public Television's "Week In Review"!

They only had 3---THREE--white people on their weekly panel this week--with one token Black man! Eric Wesson!

Hey, they squeezed in one minority. Like last week, they might have even just left him, Mr. Wesson out.

Still no Hispanic or member of the local Latinx community but hey, they got one whole minority person in there!

Whattya' think?  22nd Century they might have a white man, a white woman, an African-American and a Hispanic on the show?

Maybe??

Perhaps I'll call them this week and let them know there is a HIspanic community out here in the area.  Seems clear they don't know it.

Again, I'm just glad they can make sure they ask for money, donations from Black and Hispanic citizens in the area----even if they don't have them or want to have them on the program.