Category: Kansas news media
Kansas City Star’s dishonest portrayal of renewable energy mandate
The Star touts economic gains to the wind industry but ignores the reality that those gains come at the expense of everyone else in the form of higher taxes, higher electricity prices and other unseen economic consequences, writes Dave Trabert of Kansas Policy Institute.
Kansas news media should report, not spin
Dave Trabert of Kansas Policy Institute explains that influence may be shifting from media, unions, the education establishment, cities, counties, and school boards to those with different views — those of limited government and economic freedom that empower citizens, not an expansive government and its beneficiaries.
Top Kansas stories of 2013: Joseph Ashby edition
From FBI bomb plots to seven-story toddler trick shots to an unlikely final four run, Kansas kept our attention in 2013. Here is a countdown of the state’s top stories this year.
Kansas news reporting questioned
It’s bad enough when facts are ignored in editorials but ignoring facts and choosing sides in news stories is tantamount to journalistic malpractice, writes Dave Trabert of Kansas Policy Institute.
Kansas sales tax exemptions, according to Kansas City Star
Here’s a look at just how bad some Kansas newspaper articles and editorials have been.
Fact-checking an editor’s biased agenda
No wonder the public has been frustrated over the years with perceptions of media bias. It’s not really the bias that’s the problem, but the insistence by some editors that they are untainted by any worldview — even as they so obviously trumpet one.
Wichita Eagle editorial page: arm of Democratic Party?
The Wichita Eagle editorial page promotes a political party fundraiser.
Kansas news digest
News from alternative media around Kansas for March 22, 2010.
KPTS’s Kansas Week now online
Wichita public television station KPTS has produced the weekly public affairs program Kansas Week since 1989. Tim Brown has been the host since 2006. Now many of KPTS’s shows are available online through the station’s website.