This week Kansas City Public Television offered their take on the constant rate of killing via firearms in this wicked little town.
TAKE A LOOK AT THE KCPT "SHOTS FIRED" SPECIAL!!!
As always, it's important and a worthy project whenever local media decide to talk about Kansas City's most important problem - The constant and disproportionate rate of local homicide.
However . . .
REVIEWS OF THE KCPT SHOTS FIRED SPECIAL HAVE BEEN HARSH!!!
Just a few examples . . .
Kansas City anti-crime activist Alonzo Washington calls out the program via social media:
Another Eastside Insider chides:
"I watched it for a little while, it's the same old dog and pony show. It really wasn't worth sitting through the whole program if everyone is just going to say the same thing."
Meanwhile, a Northland Denizen remarks:
"Aim4Peace hasn't done much but rack up an impressive catering budget. It's time to get rid of this program and the last thing I wanted to see was KCPT turn into a promotional vehicle for it."
The background on this program is that KCPT Producer Nick Haines had been working on it for nearly a year and hoped to feature some of the more controversial Kansas City anti-violence advocates . . . It's not a stretch to suggest that higher-ups @ KCPT wanted a more scaled down approach and decided that traditional anti-violence groups were more appropriate for the public television audience.
The show was just as useless as what Alonzo has done with his life and what he continues to do. The one difference? Nobody with a life watches either.
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ReplyDeleteTony not you or myself or even KCPT is going to do anything to stop the violence/insanity that is griping Kansas City.
ReplyDeleteTill the true leaders of Kansas City are ready to make a real change take place we are wasting our time talking about it.
Till leader/losers like Brooks are ready to lead by example we are wasting our time.
People like Alonzo aren't making it happen they are just more talk that carries no weight.
We all know what the problem is but if we was to try and push for a real change to stop the violence our only reward is getting labeled a racist.
It's mentioning the problem that gets you labeled a racist. Mentioning the change required to fix it gets you labeled Hitler Jr.
DeleteBut these people are on TV! They are special!!!
ReplyDeleteROFLMAO
This show is about nothing more than white people, acting as keepers for feral niggers and trying to at least, control the killings. Just let the niggers do what they do and before long, they'll take a lot more off the streets.
ReplyDeleteKCPT has become the blandest and most predictable of stations. At one time there was an array of opinions presented on some of its shows like Ruckus and KC Week in Review, but for several years now only voices pleasing to the donors listed at the beginning of the show are welcome. Steve Rose is held out as a conservative, a lie he's actually uncomfortable with, and non-entities like Mary O'Halloran. Indeed, the presence of Sam Zeff as the point man for their journalistic efforts speaks volumes, previously canned by KCTV 5 for his ethical problems and biased reporting that was so bad even the Pitch ridiculed his reporting.
ReplyDeleteHaines has the talent, but not the backing to do the kind of show that actually could speak to the problem. But even were that unlikely event to occur, where to get the brave souls willing to tell the black community that their inner city gangster/entitlement culture has become a self-defeating cesspool that is sucking them all down. How to point out that their so-called leaders have betrayed them and their loyalty to a single party become counter productive without being denounced as the ultimate racist.
Until that community is prepared to look in the mirror and blame itself, not some external force, for its problems no show on any station will have an impact.
Alonzo fails at grammar.
ReplyDeleteNobody gives a shit about that.
ReplyDeleteWhat's more important is that KCPT totally dropped the ball on this one.
You're right! KCPT is the true culprit behind the rampant violence in Kansas City, shame on them.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it every time I see something about alonzo he is always complaining, blaming, etc.
ReplyDeleteThat is because Alonzo has the mind of a child.
ReplyDeleteAlonzo - it's "they're" not "their"! This was covered in freshman year in high school.
ReplyDeleteAim 4 Peace just keeps feeding the criminals and Tracie Cole's ass keeps getting bigger. Other than that, they accomplish nothing. The program is an embarrassment to our city. But then so is Michael Brooks, Craig Glazer, Alonzo, and so much more.
ReplyDeleteLets stop another 600 and something vehicles and see how many murders that solves. If talking shot was the answer there would not be a murder within a thousand miles of KC. I guess we need to start up a new law enforcement agency so KCPD wont be disripted from all that off duty pay at the stadiums, speed traps, pot busts, chasing hub caps, beating ass in the streets and covering each other's drunken asses.
ReplyDeletehow many murders and terrorist did any check point collect
ReplyDeletethe war is over tax dollars going to the police and nowhere else
Hey 'zo....GO FUCK YOURSELF!!! Now I feel soooo much better!
ReplyDeleteBonzo Alonzo on here again. What a phenominal waste of time, print and dark meat.
ReplyDeleteC'mon Tony quit puffin this poser.
Meh, more of Alonzo bitching because he can't come up with a plan that is realistic enough to get funded...
ReplyDeleteMore Northlanders who likely haven't raised a finger to stop gun violence demoaning what everyone else should be doing...
More anonymous claims about some sort of catering budget that is looking like more and more of an urban legend perpetuated by those who can't come up with a more creative or reality based challenge (has anyone seen this supposed catering budget? if so, why not publish it and make it an easily accessible public record?)
More racist comments by anonymous bigots.
Nothing new here, moving on.