A new low for the KC Star

[cmeyersales]

Originally Posted by TwistedChief

Actually, I’m retracting my previous position on the issue. And in doing so I apologize to Clay.

He’s right. This is a letter to the editor, and while there’s no part of me that has any problem that it’s published (newspapers regularly publish these sorts of things that are antagonistic and antithetical to the views of the paper), the fact that they tweeted it out first thing in the morning and clearly didn’t do a good job expressing that it’s a letter to the editor, well, that’s a ****ing problem.

Because now half of KC is running around with their hair on fire as a result. And that does no one any favors and is entirely a function of the way they presented this. Had it been accurately labeled, different story. But it’s even beyond clickbait - it’s just really poor journalism-ish behavior in an era of social media.

So, Clay. I’m sorry. **** The Star. They completely brought this on themselves and it’s deeply poor form.

Yeah this is really bad optics and massive clickbait by the Star. They're trying to fan flames of what was an opinion by some moron, but throwing it on Twitter is all about them trying to do more than publish an opinion.

Clay has been right on this - what is the reason for the Star to do this besides causing division and a money grab?


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