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Monday, August 5, 2019
KCPT Does It Again. Some More. Seriously, KCPT, How Long Are You Going To Keep This Up?
Yes sir and ma'am, another week, another couple of local news programs from KCPT, having only or largely only white people save us all.
Very white, Nick Haines and his show, "Week in Review" loaded up just one more all white panel to do just that, save the city with all the answers they--the white men folk--have for us.
Yes sir, there you go. Four white guys and--oops!--they let in a token woman! How did that happen?
Not one person of color.
Not one black person. Not one Hispanic. Nada. No one else. Just lily white people, there to save the day, praze Geezus.
And then uber white, Right Wing, Conservative, Republican Mike Shanin, there, with his show, "Ruckus", later in the week and, wow! This time THEY LET IN ONE BLACK PERSON! Stunning! Not only that, they let 3 women, AT ONE TIME, be on the show with the white guys! Wowzer! They may get this one day yet, huh? Maybe? If we all live long enough?
Poor Woody Cozad looked downright uncomfortable, what with all those wimmin folk sittin' 'round him. And a cupla' them m-eye-noritees, too, at that.
Look, KCPT, we've talked about this before.
You load up your money-begging commercials with people of color and women. You're all the time asking for money from them, from minorities.
How impossible for you all is it that you would have, say, one Hispanic and one black person, EVERY WEEK, on your programs? This city is not tiny. How tough would it be to stop loading us up with what only white people in general but also only white, old, conservative men and their thoughts and answers on local, state, regional and national answers and possibilities?
Who knows, you might even get, oh, I don't know, more viewers and more support, financial and otherwise, for your programs?
How y'all aren't embarrassed by this, personally and professionally, I can't even imagine.
What did they teach you in journalism school, anyway?
Sunday, March 3, 2019
An Open Letter to Davis Hammet, KCUR, KCPT, Steve Kraske, The Kansas City Star and All Kansans
So yes, first of all, this is going to be an open letter and it's to several entities so thanks for your patience and I'll do my best to be brief but first, an introduction.
Davis Hammet is a young man living in Kansas, Topeka, to be exact, who moved here--from Florida, I believe--because he felt like it was important and there was work to do. So move he did.
He was and is a political science student (not unlike yours truly) so he knows a bit of what should and should not and can and cannot happen in government.
So he came here and began his work.
His work is educating now-fellow Kansans on their state government at all levels, trying to get more "average people" involved and by so doing, getting to more justice, fairness and some equality in the state.
Noble goals.
With that brief introduction, the open letters.
Mr. Hammet,
Thank you, first, for coming to Kansas.
I don't know how you picked this state or how you came here but thank you and thank goodness you did. Your work, already, in the presumably short time you've been here has been pretty monumental. With your research and time spent at the State Capitol in Topeka and writing and videos you have gotten a great deal of information out to Kansas and Kansans they wouldn't otherwise have and in a very quick, informative, palatable and apparently complete format.
I thank you and I don't even live in Kansas.
What you're doing is extremely important---and helpful. You're making big changes and all for the people.
So now to KCUR, KCPT, Steve Kraske, The Kansas City Star and all the Kansans out there.
You media sources need to have Mr. Hammet on your programs AND BADLY. All one need do is see his brief, concise, very informative YouTube videos (see some below) on his organization, LOUD LIGHT, and you can tell he is a serious young man doing some terrific work and he's extremely informed. This man is headed places.
So please, please have him on your programs, Interview him, write about him, let him speak. He is a voice of the people. Whether Right Wing or Left, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or Independent, it's difficult to be against someone who is merely reporting good, hard, timely information on the state government and who wants justice for his fellow citizens.
So again, Mr. Hammet, thank you. Thank you very deeply and sincerely. Thank you for your work, your energy and the information you give us. Thank you for your intentions. Thank you for coming to Kansas and the Midwest.
Missouri badly needs someone very like you in Jefferson City.
Heck, every state in the nation does.
And Kansas, you are very, very fortunate. Congratulations on your "acquisition." You are very fortunate indeed. You need to know and follow this young man.
Links:
Just some of his YouTube videos, reporting on the Kansas Statehouse.
Additional links:
Loud Light
Friday, June 1, 2018
A Challenge to the Churches and Media to Stop Being "Politically Correct"
So now this President, Trump came out and said we should have a nationwide ban on German luxury automobiles.
What is this guy smoking?
Can you even imagine this?
Banning the entire nation of their BMWs, Mercedes Benz and Audi automobiles, at least?
What would his big, wealthy donors drive?
Lincoln Continentals?
Please. Who are we kidding?
But here's where the "political correctness" comes in.
Why aren't we seeing and hearing reporters, especially from local TV stations, going out to the local German luxury auto dealers and asking them what they think of this idea?
Why don't we see and get that?
I'll tell you why.
We don't see that because the local TV stations and newspapers and media outlets don't want to alienate any advertisers or readers.
Dime to a doughnut says those owners and even, likely, the managers of those luxury car dealers are high paid Republicans or at least Right Wingers. The last thing they want to do is get on the airwaves, TV, radio or get quoted in the newspaper with their picture, saying it's the outrageously stupid idea it is. God forbid they tell the truth and push away some Trump follower who was just about to plop down $58,000 or more on a brand new, shiny, 4 wheel automobile from Stuttgart.
And it's the same way with the churches.
When was the last time you heard a huge outcry from any church or from any pulpit when some government representative or government agency comes out and announces cuts in programs for the poor?
The answer, of course, is either never or long, long ago.
Once again, those ministers and priests up there giving sermons don't want to run the risk of alienating some Right Winger or Republican in the pew. God forbid they not make their weekly contribution to the plate he's about to pass around, pun heavily intended.
Political party wants to give yet more tax cuts to the already-wealthy and corporations, thus driving up the national debt, drastically, while they push for cuts to even Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid?
Sure! No problem! You won't hear a word from any "man of God."
Who's that Jesus guy?
Wha'd he say? What was he about?
So local news outlets? KMBC? KCTV5? WDAF?
What say you?
Do you have any guts?
Will you stop reporting on the latest kitty cat videos on Youtube on our evening news and instead, go out to Aristocrat Motors on I-35 or some such and ask the owner there what he thinks of this President and his brilliant idea?
Please?
We dare you.
Sunday, March 25, 2018
March For Our Lives Kansas City Big Success and the Media Coverage It Created
The March For Our Lives event here in Kansas City was a big, big success yesterday. It was exciting and gratifying and really wonderful how many came out and the success of it all.
The Star has a fantastic, brief video of the March For Our Lives Kansas City rally/march that took place yesterday on their site.
March for Our Lives protest in KC
draws thousands
They gave the event some quite good coverage, thankfully. Here's more.
Slain Brookside attorney's widow speaks
at March for Our Lives
Local TV media also gave great coverage.
Not just the Kansas City march alone, either.
Good to great regional and national coverage, too.
There's lots more from the event, pictures, etc., here, too.
It was a terrific day and event.
Now, we go forward.
Sunday, February 19, 2017
A Question For CBS News and "60 Minutes"
So yes, a question for the people at CBS News and their news program "60 Minutes."
Last week, you spent the entire hour on singers and performers because your program was just before the Grammys you were broadcasting that same night.
This week, tonight, you have:
- who is to blame in the shooting death of an 11-year-old boy? His brother, who was holding the rifle, or the gun itself
- U.S. war planners estimate half a million people could be killed if a second Korean war breaks out
- The highest ranking North Korean defector explains why the regime there is more dangerous to the US than ever
That story would be on our new President, Trump---and in many facets.
There are many, many different ways in which he is doing things vastly differently than any president ever, first. But more importantly, if not downright scarily, he is doing and saying things that threaten other Americans and even our own democracy as well as Democracy. Here are just a few:
Trump attacks 'dishonest media'
while making false claims
This article alone tells a great deal of what this President Trump has done and is doing that is threatening to the nation.
His press conference last week was chock full of untruths and significant problems.
At one point, he insulted and silenced a Jewish member of the press when he wanted to ask if the President was going to say anything about the recent attacks on Jews, nationally.
He threatened California, as one huge departure from American history and precedent.
He's nominated a very Conservative judge for the Supreme Court.
Trump picks conservative judge Gorsuch
for Supreme Court
He's made statements about justices on the court----and then taken them back.
Heck, he's even scaring Right Wingers and Republicans who would otherwise, you'd think and assume, be supporting him.
And Senator McCain isn't keeping it to himself.
There's the issue of the new President's trips to Florida---and their costs.
Trump's Florida trips cost taxpayer money
Trump's Florida vacations are costing local law enforcement $1.5 million in overtime
What does this guy have to do to get reported on by you all?
Does he have to "shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue", so to speak?
When do we get to the "news"? The big news. Really, the biggest news.
NPR, anyway, is doing something about it as one hopeful contrast and example.
NPR has created a team devoted to covering President Trump’s conflicts of interest
Saturday, November 5, 2016
Presidential
President Obama was on Bill Maher's "Real Time with Bill Maher" show last evening on HBO for a one on one interview.
This, then, ladies and gentlemen, is calmness and intelligence and lucidity and yes, being presidential.
In sharp and stark contrast to this year's Republican candidate for the presidency.
Sunday, October 30, 2016
What Is It With KCPT and White People?
(crackers. far as the eye can see).
Now, this week, their local news program "Kansas City Week in Review" with the very British and wonderful Nick Haines discussed two issues this week--the upcoming Missouri tobacco tax and the Johnson County Public Safety tax.
On neither issue was their even one "person of color."
Just saying.
Now, we know there are no Black or Hispanic people in Johnson County, sure. (Right?). That's why everyone moved out there, all those years ago, of course. And still, to this day, we know there are no "people of color" in any positions of authority, in government offices out there. I'm just sure of it. (Is it even legal?).
But on that first question? The Missouri state tobacco tax?
Nothing but white people?
Over the entire state?
Just asking.
Link: Kansas City Week in Review - KCPT
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Whither "Ruckus"?
It will be interesting to see who is on KCPT's "Ruckus" TV program this evening.
KCPT and Their Lily White "Ruckus"
For that matter, it will be interesting to watch, from now on, for racial content and inclusion.
Or exclusion, as the case may be.
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Support NPR! Support Your Local Station!
For all those in the Kansas City area, if you listen to the local NPR station, KCUR 89.3 FM and aren't yet a member, PLEASE, PLEASE go here this week and give what you can. As low as $7 per month would be a huge help and very much appreciated. If you can afford more, it would be greatly, greatly appreciated. It's also tax deductible so there's that help, also.
There are so many great programs and such great local, statewide, regional, national and international coverage of news, arts, fantastic music and entertainment! (But you know that).
You can do it by check or credit card. You can also become a sustaining member and have your contribution made monthly by your credit or ATM card.
So, go, please, if you can and would and make your contribution. And thank you, in advance!
Saturday, October 25, 2014
The truly frightening state of Americans, media and our sources for news
I saw the scariest study of Americans and how we get our news now. Check this little beauty out:
Survey: More Americans get news from Internet than newspapers and radio
The headline alone was enough to frighten a person. Unfortunately, if not surprisingly, it went on to get only worse:
(CNN) -- More Americans get their news from the Internet than from newspapers or radio, and three-fourths say they hear of news via e-mail or updates on social media sites, according to a new report.
Sixty-one percent of Americans said they get at least some of their news online, according to a survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
That's compared with 54 percent who said they listen to a radio news program and 50 percent who said they read a national or local print newspaper.
There was one little glimmer of hope in all this:
Almost all respondents, 92 percent, said they get their news from more than one platform.
Thank goodness for that last little tidbit, anyway. At least people arent' completely "single-sourcing" their news. At least as far as they admit, anyway.
Thinking of the situation, that online, we all merely tune in to those sources that tilt or lean to our preconceived, already decided upon views, that's disheartening.
In the past, the news was the newspaper in the morning (and evening, if you're that old). It was a better, more overall look at our society and the news. Yes, newspapers still might lean "Left" or "Right", more or less Conservative or Liberal but they were a broader, more encompassing view of what was occurring in the nation and world. We didn't have control. We couldn't turn it off.
Sure, you could ignore different editorials and columnists but by and large, one was given a better view of what was going on in the world.
Turn to today, with the internet and media, especially since the Republicans had us throw out the more balancing "Fairness Doctrine" in our laws which forced media sources to give two sides to each issue, and now we're far more tuning in to what we merely already agree with and what we want to hear.
It's truly scary.
Naturally, it's extremely polarizing. It makes us far more Republicans vs. Democrats or Liberals vs. Conservatives or--probably worst of all---"Left Wing" vs. "Right Wing."
With that same study, recently, though, yet more information came out:
This is one more big, rather new though not fully surprising development.
News? People getting their "news"? From Facebook?
I can't think of any more shallow or slanted source to get your "news" from than Facebook since most people, especially there, just "like" what they agree with and only follow such. Heaven knows I'm guilty of that. I don't even keep old friends from high school as Facebook friends after I've found they've turned into Right Wing and/or Republican shills.
We're bad and getting worse, clearly.
And the thing is, for all the great things coming from the Millenials and "X" and "Y" generations---like watching less and less television, needing, wanting and buying less automobiles, their turning away from the hates and prejudices of their parents and society and wanting to pollute our world less, etc.--this whole trend will no doubt get worse and worse with the oncoming of yet more and more technology on their part and that of our society.
It doesn't give me hope. At least it doesn't on this one topic.
With all that sour news, due to that study, comes this news, today, to prove the point:
Thursday Cable Ratings: Fox News #1 During NYC Ebola Breaking News
Here we have a serious situation in the country, responding to a possibly, even likely deadly disease and what "media" outlet is the number one source for people for news on it?
Fox? Fox "News"? Faux News?
Go ahead. Shoot me now.
Fox? Fox "News"? Faux News?
Go ahead. Shoot me now.
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Elephants on the rampage in St. Louis!
Tru' dat:
Elephants damage cars after escaping Shrine Circus
Okay, everyone came out fine. No one hurt. No elephants hurt, apparently so I can officially decclare...
That was funny.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Only on PBS
It occurred to me the other evening, while watching yet another PBS' News Hour, that only on PBS have I ever seen and would we ever see not just one but four different black men--specialists, all--discuss the current black experience and situation here in America:
Naturally, it was a terrific, insightful, intelligent, enlightening conversation unlike you get anywhere else on TV.
Kudos and thank you, PBS NewsHour and PBS.
Now, if only more people would watch.
And listen.
And learn.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Cape Girardeau train wreck this morning
Two freight trains collided and derailed early Saturday in southeast Missouri, then triggered the collapse of a highway overpass when several rail cars struck a support pillar.
Seven people were injured, including two personnel on the trains and five individuals in cars on the overpass on Highway M near Scott City, about 120 miles south of St. Louis, NBC affiliate KSDK reported. All the injured were hospitalized and listed in fair condition.
The collision occurred before dawn at a rail intersection.
"One train T-boned the other one and caused it to derail, and the derailed train hit a pillar which caused the overpass to collapse," Scott County Sheriff's dispatcher Clay Slipis told Reuters.
The crash, which involved BNSF Railway Co and Union Pacific trains, also ignited a fire when diesel fuel leaked from one of the train engines, Slipis said.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Kansas City on "60 Minutes" "Lost Boys of Sudan" story last evening
Kansas City kept popping up last evening on CBS News' "60 Minutes" story:
Monday, March 25, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Hopefully not the start of a trend for thinking of Kansas City
There is a big story on MSN news right now about a guy who got a big KC Chiefs tattoo:
Dear God, let's not let this be the beginning of the way this area is thought of or remembered.
Story: Whoa!!! Kansas City fan goes all-out with a huge scalp tattoo
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
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