Tony's Kansas City: Favoritism reeks!

By Greg Reeves
In our recent read-through of 168 blogs at KCBloggers, we think Tony's Kansas City was linked to more than any other KC area blog.

That's a level of street cred we respect. Tony has now weighed in today on part of our discussion with City Councilman Troy Nash on the city's homicide rate.

We were so excited, we were going to parse his comment and respond sentence by sentence. But we read it closely, and it seems to boil down to this: Kansas City's a one-newspaper town, The Star's in bed with local politicians, won't criticize them and would be better off investigating them.

We'd be glad to go on forever about this, but we'd like to see what other readers of this blog are interested in first. Long-winded takes on the news biz can be...so long-winded.

Comments

[joe Miller]

I'd like to see you greatly expand your definition of crime. For instance, I think the pay-day loan joints in my neighborhood are a crime. I think Steve Glorioso's tax-funded paycheck is a crime. The horrible education kids are getting at Central High is a crime.

[joe Miller]

For the sake of expanding the conversation, here's a link to my blog entry about your new site:

http://kcsoil.blogspot.com/2005/10/crime.html

(Hi Joe: Thanks for commenting, see my follow-up post to come)

[sparrowsfall@mac.com]

don't forget the TIFs, joe. and eminent domain abuse. and destruction of local architecture and neighborhoods.

SCOTUS notwithstanding--also crimes.