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If it was MU - Star would be running daily articles listing
Posted on: October 19, 2018 at 11:32:34 CT
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If it was MU the Star would be running daily articles listing every negative MU basketball story from the past 30 years.
The Star is giving minimum coverage while maintaining a barely plausible claim that they "covered it". Why? They can't be entirely sure some future event will not blow up the entire situation making them look like the prostitutes they are.
Notice no mention of all of the long standing messy "issues" from the past like Arthur's high school transcript. The car that Scott Pollard "sold" to a player who "forgot" to get the tags transferred. The numerous "jobs" for relatives provided by Boosters with inexplicitly high salaries.
The list goes on and on. The operative principle is this - in the Star, any negative MU story lives on for 30 years; and any negative KU story has a life of about 3 months tops.
KU clams up and refuses to release information in every instance. In other words, the go to KU approach is to stonewall the press. Any reporter worth anything would recognize this as a huge red flag and raise hell about how KU, a taxpayer funded instituation, is stiffing reporters. Instead the Star reporters meekly accept whatever lame excuse KU comes up with for why they won't release the information. Why? The Star reporters are corporate employees who have to follow corporate policy. Corporate policy is to pander to KU fans in the affluent suburbs.
It is all part of the Star's Johnson county strategy. My Dad continues to subscribe to the Star because he has for 50 years. (He is now 90). I am shocked by how much it costs. It is something like $650 a year (that is within 30 dollars, just don't recall exactly). But it is not just the cost, the Content literally shrinks every year. It is just a shell of a newspaper at this point. We laugh that you could not even kill a fly with the Monday edition it is so small. And a lot of days are similar.
The Star's subscriber base is concentrated in the affluent suburbs. It is very difficult to get some one who is making $40K a year to spend $650 a year on a newspaper subscription. Back in the 1970s they adopted a strategy of pandering to affluent suburbs, which to the Star means pandering to KC's Kansas suburbs. So they pander to KU.
They are willing to attack specific Kansas politicians like Brownback, but they are not willing to go after KU.
Edited by Knucklehead at 11:43:54 on 10/19/18
The Star is giving minimum coverage while maintaining a barely plausible claim that they "covered it". Why? They can't be entirely sure some future event will not blow up the entire situation making them look like the prostitutes they are.
Notice no mention of all of the long standing messy "issues" from the past like Arthur's high school transcript. The car that Scott Pollard "sold" to a player who "forgot" to get the tags transferred. The numerous "jobs" for relatives provided by Boosters with inexplicitly high salaries.
The list goes on and on. The operative principle is this - in the Star, any negative MU story lives on for 30 years; and any negative KU story has a life of about 3 months tops.
KU clams up and refuses to release information in every instance. In other words, the go to KU approach is to stonewall the press. Any reporter worth anything would recognize this as a huge red flag and raise hell about how KU, a taxpayer funded instituation, is stiffing reporters. Instead the Star reporters meekly accept whatever lame excuse KU comes up with for why they won't release the information. Why? The Star reporters are corporate employees who have to follow corporate policy. Corporate policy is to pander to KU fans in the affluent suburbs.
It is all part of the Star's Johnson county strategy. My Dad continues to subscribe to the Star because he has for 50 years. (He is now 90). I am shocked by how much it costs. It is something like $650 a year (that is within 30 dollars, just don't recall exactly). But it is not just the cost, the Content literally shrinks every year. It is just a shell of a newspaper at this point. We laugh that you could not even kill a fly with the Monday edition it is so small. And a lot of days are similar.
The Star's subscriber base is concentrated in the affluent suburbs. It is very difficult to get some one who is making $40K a year to spend $650 a year on a newspaper subscription. Back in the 1970s they adopted a strategy of pandering to affluent suburbs, which to the Star means pandering to KC's Kansas suburbs. So they pander to KU.
They are willing to attack specific Kansas politicians like Brownback, but they are not willing to go after KU.
Edited by Knucklehead at 11:43:54 on 10/19/18
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