Dan from Gone Mild writes a fantastic essay on the importance of a vibrant Kansas City Star. "If you think you can do without the Star because you get all the
local news you need from the blogs, you're horribly mistaken," Dan writes. "You're
still getting your local news from the Star -- it's just getting
filtered by bloggers, or you're dependent on the Star's website."
Dan's son, Sam Ryan, co-writes the video-gaming blog Hardcasual with Chris Plante. Hardcausal made WordPress' top 100 blogs of the day. Easy to see why, what with the Hardcasual style NSA fun.
Erin in the Real World's friends, Nick and Hurricane, are good people. Erin tells a nail-biter of a story about them saving a family trapped in a house fire Sunday night.
Blue Girl apologizes to Alvin Brooks about that whole voting for Mark Funkhouser thing. Get in line.
restrains himself from killing his inconsiderate, hipster neighbors.
"Last night these upstairs douche nozzles showed their ass more than
Richard Simmons in a Bath House," MM writes. Uh, yeah.
Finally, my blog blood brother, Chris Packham, wrote some snotty shit on tha Internet yesterday. Highly recommended reading for teenage runaways. -- Justin Kendall
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I hate to quibble with Dan (although I don't read him), but I've gotta disagree. I think that having a vibrant newspaper IS important, but there are too many instances of the Star (and other mainstream media) being way behind the game when it comes to reporting on stories about KC that bloggers had picked up on before.
This is the same kind of garbage that I heard from David Perlmutter at his "Business Blogging" seminar out at the Edwards Campus last week. The disdain for journalistic types toward bloggers is tantamount. To them, blogs are not "news" because they aren't printed.
My question is: Are newspapers and media companies the next to appear in Washington for a bailout? If so, I say LET THEM FAIL.
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