BOTTOM LINE: Chris Packham of the Pitch seems to be off-base when he criticizes the Kansas City Star for what he claims are attempts to re-name of the Power & Light District in KCMO. Packham says the developer of the area, Cordish Company, is changing the name to "Kansas City Live." However, in reality, the Star still uses the term "Power & Light" District routinely in stories (see Business Section, 3/18/03). The "Kansas City Live" area is a special name for a specific area within the Power & Light District. The real story that is not being covered with the Power & Light District. How is Cordish able to bully city hall, contractors and everyone involved with the work there? Why are major firms like JD Dunn refusing to work with Cordish? 03-17-2008
Even though everyone's been calling the project "The Power and Light District" since, like, the Spanish-American War, the Star's headline says "Fans flock to new Kansas City Live district." The Cordish Company, the district's developer, coined the in-my-opinion retarded name "Kansas City Live." HAHA, Joyce Smith takes her cues from press releases. My annoyance with lazy news writing is palpable. No -- literally palpable, in a medical sense. It's manifested as a lump on my shoulder, like a sty. I can move it around under my skin. Sometimes it talks! I'm calling him Shecky.
Okay, okay, Jesus, I get it already: It's no longer "The Power and Light District." The Kansas City Star, in accordance with the ongoing corporate mandate of the Cordish Company, is referring to the Power and Light District as "the Kansas City Live area," and fucking beating me over the head with it. It inexplicably appears right here in the lede for a story about agriculture prices.
I think I heard of some hippies somewhere who had a baby and named it "Andromeda Revelation" or some crap, and everyone had to go along with it. But corporations shouldn't have the same wiggle-room w/r/t completely fruity names when the taxpayers are footing the bill. HAHA, when I use words like "should" and "shouldn't," and talk about "how the world should be" I totally sound like a Free-Mumia-T-shirt-wearing hippie myself.
