{"id":16937,"date":"2020-12-23T12:03:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T20:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=16937"},"modified":"2020-12-23T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T20:03:20","slug":"kansas-city-star-apologizes-for-decades-of-racist-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2020\/12\/23\/kansas-city-star-apologizes-for-decades-of-racist-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Star apologizes for decades of racist reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Newspaper publishes series on how it ignored Black residents\u2019 concerns and successes and fueled segregation<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6bbe027c4fd3e983f6e91594cd0f52ef6b496046\/0_36_1800_1080\/master\/1800.jpg?width=445&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=c663b3dc11c68baf74b549fb4b484e5c\" alt=\"Men in the newsroom of the the Kansas City Star in Kansas City, Missouri, in an undated photo.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Men in the newsroom of the the Kansas City Star in Kansas City, Missouri, in an undated photo.\u00a0Photograph: File\/AP<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Associated\u00a0Press, Mon 21 Dec 2020 15.19 EST (theguardian.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kansas City Star\u2019s top editor has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/local\/article247928045.html\">apologized<\/a>&nbsp;for past decades of racist coverage and the newspaper has posted a series of stories examining how it ignored the concerns and achievements of Black residents and helped keep Kansas City segregated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newspaper said a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/local\/article247928045.html\">detailed examination<\/a>&nbsp;of its past coverage and that of its longtime sister newspaper, the Kansas City Times, documented how they often wrote about Black residents only as criminals or people living in crime-plagued neighborhoods and ignored segregation in Kansas City, Missouri, and its public schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is well past time for an apology, acknowledging, as we do so, that the sins of our past still reverberate today,\u201d Mike Fannin, the Star\u2019s president and editor, wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Star\u2019s apology and its lengthy series of stories,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/local\/article247928045.html\">posted on its website on Sunday<\/a>, followed a Los Angeles Times editorial in September apologizing for past racially biased coverage. The Montgomery, Alabama, Advertiser in 2018 apologized for \u201cshameful\u201d decades of coverage of lynchings, and National Geographic magazine apologized the same year for its past racist coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fannin wrote that the Star had reinforced segregation, \u201cdisenfranchised, ignored and scorned generations\u201d of Black residents and for decades \u201crobbed an entire community of opportunity, dignity, justice and recognition\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newspaper publishes series on how it ignored Black residents\u2019 concerns and successes and fueled segregation Men in the newsroom of the the Kansas City Star in Kansas City, Missouri, in an undated photo.\u00a0Photograph: File\/AP Associated\u00a0Press, Mon 21 Dec 2020 15.19 EST (theguardian.com) The Kansas City Star\u2019s top editor has&nbsp;apologized&nbsp;for past&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2020\/12\/23\/kansas-city-star-apologizes-for-decades-of-racist-reporting\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16938,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16937\/revisions\/16938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}