Best TV coverage of yesterday's settlement in Ruth Bates' discrimination lawsuit against Mayor Mark Funkhouser and the City of Kansas City goes to KSHB Channel 41, where reporter Chris Hernandez got an exclusive sit-down with Bates. Watching what ran on TV last night I couldn't tell if that was a nervous smile on Bates' face or whether she could barely contain her glee over the $550,000 settlement. But the full 9-minute version of Hernandez' interview on the station's Web site is more revealing.
Leaders of the International House of Prayer met with the public for the second time (we covered the first), and it doesn't sound like a lot came out of the meeting other than more denials from church founder Mike Bickle that his church isn't a cult. KSHB Channel 41 attended the star-studded meeting (Cathy Jolly! John Sharp! Alvin Brooks!). The highlight: Neighbor Carmen Kelly said the kids all seem "brainwashed."
Kelly said:
"They all kind of talk the same. They speak in monotone. I've had
