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In case anyone hadn't decided on the KC Star yet (https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=323861)

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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501 (Post 14345280)

That's my biggest issue and why this is a Rosen issue. It's fine to have a negative opinion on tyreek. But there has been enough seeds planted for real journalists to investigate tyreeks side of both stories.

Not even a hint of that. Nobody talking to tyreeks roommate (Carrington Harrison did). His anger management counselors. No one looking into the credibility of the accusers family. The papers job is to present both sides and let the reader draw their own conclusion. If the editorial board still wanted to say they think tyreek is guilty after a fair presentation of both sides, fine. But the way this is handled is a complete hit job from the top down.

What got me is the total dismissal of Tyreek's claim of innocence in 2014. Actually, it's worse than that: the writer somehow claims it makes him more of a monster. I understand it's an op/ed -- one written to signal to the coastal elites that not everyone in KC is a domestic abuse apologist -- but it was hardly a reasoned, sober analysis. In fact, it was cringe-worthy. The woman who wrote that is just an unhappy, awful person.

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Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower (Post 14345210)

No. The career arc of a sports journalist is why I felt no guilt in giving up on the path six years ago.

If you're not at a premier journo program like Mizzou or Syracuse, you're going to slog your way through writing for your school paper and freelancing or unpaid interning with a local paper. Post graduation you'll be lucky to get a staff role anywhere and you'll probably get stuck in a very small town covering middle school sports as your starting point to maybe monkey bar swing gradually into increasingly bigger markets.

It took the guy I personally know (and who was gracious enough to throw me work and advice) 15 years to make it to the point where he's covering professional sports wherein he spent the better part of a decade in two small to mid-size metro areas in the capacity of an editor/reporter focusing solely on high school prep sports.

This made me wonder about Brooke's career path, so I looked her up on linkedin. Does anyone want to guess what her first job was?

Wait for it...

Wait for it...

It's worth scrolling...keep going....

Here's the entry for her first journalism job: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brookepryor/

Freelance liveblogger
Company Name Inside Lacrosse
Dates Employed Mar 2012 – May 2012
Employment Duration 3 mos

I covered both men’s and women’s lacrosse games for Inside Lacrosse. I liveblogged a running play-by-play and wrote game recaps afterwards for games featuring UNC-CH and Duke.

Yes, her first journalism job was covering Duke lacrosse.

Now, unlike the KC Star, I'm actually going to investigate this further with a neutral mindset. The false allegations and the big blowup were in the 2006 to 2008 time frame, before she was there. And she was only there for three months. The aftermath according to wikipedia continued all the way into 2014, though.

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Originally Posted by Mecca (Post 14345298)

Those who do speak might come to regret it, like Chiefs coach Andy Reid did when he mistakenly said in April that Johnson County district attorney Steve Howe had reopened an investigation involving Hill and Espinal and the treatment of their 3-year-old son.

A star reporter stated this first. I'm guessing Andy ****ed up and thought he could trust the KC media.

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Originally Posted by FringeNC (Post 14345118)

Is too much to ask that the Chiefs beat reporter care more about the NFL than social justice issues?

You have to consider that almost everyone working in influential positions in the media has far-left political views, and people with those views will see their position as carrying a responsibility to advance 'justice'. They don't feel this is an issue where they are biased or being political, they feel it's a right vs wrong thing and it's their duty to take and advance positions.

Man, what the ****?

In all of these quasi-apologies we get the same tired crap "Well we can't know what happened..." "Well we were misled" "Well there are still too many questions to come to a conclusion..."

THEN ****ING GO DO SOME INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING!!! How the hell is it not your job to go do these things? Why are none of you actually out there pounding the concrete on leads trying to figure out what actually happened instead of just vomiting up someone else's work?

Even now, right this very second, after all this crap has happened - Vahe is still going to the "what do we actually know?" well instead of actually trying to find out what more may actually be knowable.

Holy crap these guys are pathetic. I mean just embarrassing as hell. If this stuff doesn't fall right into their laps, they simply will not do it.

And then they'll throw their hands up and say "How could we have known? What did you expect us to do...work for it?"

I'm really coming to loathe these pricks.

Who wants to edit my shit. It's ready.

The assholes at TV5 and the Star and turning into WWE bad guys. You know they are a joke, but you still hate them anyway.

Vahe should be fired. Period.

“If the Vahe cared about honor and decency, he should resign.”

About to go live. I'll consider any proposed edits.

https://medium.com/@claywendler/if-t...r-c94265079f0c

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 14344628)

They're doubling down and hiding behind an 'editorial board' byline so nobody has to put their name on this shit.

https://amp.kansascity.com/opinion/e...mpression=true

Sounds like CNN & MSNBC.

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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties (Post 14345425)

About to go live. I'll consider any proposed edits.

https://medium.com/@clayW. (name wit...r-c94265079f0c

Jim Denning's sued the Star for libel

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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties (Post 14345425)

About to go live. I'll consider any proposed edits.

https://medium.com/@clayW. (name wit...r-c94265079f0c

It’s not Forth Worth.

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Originally Posted by Third Eye (Post 14345436)

It’s not Forth Worth.

According to wikipedia it is.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas)

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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties (Post 14345438)

According to wikipedia it is.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas)

You see the difference right? You wrote Forth Worth. It is Fort Worth.