FEAST MAGAZINE TOO MUCH FOR BLOATED KANSAS CITY'S FOODIE SCENE?!?!

Let's talk the Kansas City news scene for just a moment. Despite constant complaining from all of the codgers who used to work with Dead Tree Media, there is one aspect of Kansas City media that's booming.

To wit . . .

KANSAS CITY FOODIE CONTENT IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH WITH SO MANY NEW OFFERINGS SHOVED DOWN THE GULLET OF LOCAL MEDIA CONNOISSEURS!!!

There are more than a dozen local foodie blogs featuring everything from lunch porn to dish no new restaurants. In fact, one local foodie hipster played it smart by getting out of the foodie game and instead moving toward social media marketing . . . Pretty much the same thing. And that's the problem, foodie literature is the one aspect of local content where readers expect there to be conflicts.

Seriously, Internets forums are pretty much the only place where you can read a negative restaurant review nowadays . . . And they say that won't last for long.

We pretty much assume most foodie journalists are working a sponsored content angle.

That's why Ferruzza still stands above the rest . . . He has established a reputation for never trading favors or taking anything for his reviews despite constant bribe attempts from desperate restauranteurs.

As for Feast . . . Their magazine is nice but has only put out one issue in KC so far. The cover is glossy and the over-sized mag attracts attention but the inside is ugly stock paper and nothing but adverts that are nearly indistinguishable from sparse content.

Kansas City Magazine insiders give the publication less than a year's worth of life as Kansas City foodie scene remains vibrant but nearly impossible to dominate given that local fatties simply want to play reviewer, post their own photos and then talk smack on the Internets . . . Which seems to be the way of all local content and part of what's destroying the Dead Tree Media industry from The Pitch on down.

Developing . . .