KC Star Pretends There's Only One Rumor of Elector Death Threats

Tom Blumer
December 19th, 2016 11:58 PM
News travels slowly into the Kansas City metropolitan area — or at least into the newsroom at the Kansas City Star. On Friday, the paper's Dave Helling produced a 950-word writeup on Monday's Electoral College voting. With all of the widely published news about Republican electors receiving death threats, all Helling had to report was a rumor: "One spouse of a Missouri elector claimed to know of…
 

More on Emanuel 'Car Wash' Cleaver Coverage: AP Does Local Story, Does

Tom Blumer
April 9th, 2012 3:27 PM
Well, the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, apparently has Missouri Democratic Congressman and Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emanuel Cleaver's back. As of 2:40 p.m., there is no national story relevant to Cleaver's unpaid $1 million-plus loan at the wire service's national site, even though information published by the Kansas City Star late Friday evening (interesting…