Dear Editor,
It was very surprising to see the Alabama Justice Building protest photo on your Labor Day, Sept. 1 Editorial Page. This Alabama protest of 350 people earned a photo measuring 6.375"x 3.375". This serves as a perfect reminder of why the Star has lost credibility with a portion of Kansas City readership.
I have been working on a project which requires searching through the Star's archived, anti-war protest coverage. It simply must be pointed out that this Alabama photo is larger than any Star photo printed of the Kansas City anti-war protests, even with 3000 local people!
Why does the Kansas City Star deem a small Alabama protest more of local interest than the huge Kansas City anti-war protests?
You may be interested in the attached protest photo taken on March 20th, the day the Baghdad bombing began. As evident in this photo, The Kansas City Star photographer was clearly working as thousands marched through the Plaza streets in solidarity against this attack. Yet even during this height of the local anti-war protests, the Star did not see this as an event worthy of photo ink.
Unless there is significant change from the Star, you have damaged credibility with many readers. I will not be holding my breath for the Star's journalistic objectivity to appear.
We will continue to spread the word through all other available media, rendering the Star's Pravda like coverage increasingly irrelevant.
Sincerely,
Jan Kuliska
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Comments
Re: angry letter to the KC Star about photo priorities
02 Sep 2003
It's well past time more people got angry about this sort of thing!
Re: letter to the KC Star about photo priorities
03 Sep 2003
Re: letter to the KC Star about photo priorities
03 Sep 2003
Has anyone else written the Star about this photo issue? My initial imputus is that this is very much an ongoing issue, and not likely to improve unless several people contact them. Think our KC fishwrap will print a decent Bush protest photo? I think we all understand why that is highly doubtful.
You make some very interesting points Jeremy.
(paragraph breaks are your friends, and make text much easier to read)
Re: letter to the KC Star about photo priorities
09 Sep 2003
Re: letter to the KC Star about photo priorities
10 Sep 2007