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Kansas City local radio talk host (and sometime national talk show fill-in) Chris Stigall refers to the Kansas City Star as the "Falling Star."

How apt:

Barely a year after Sacramento, California-based McClatchy paid $4.6 billion for Knight-Ridder Inc. and sold the parts it didn't want, the publisher of the Sacramento Bee and Kansas City Star now has a stock price that's 31 percent lower than it was the day the acquisition closed. While the market has rendered an early verdict on the Knight-Ridder deal, McClatchy's financial statements don't reflect it.

Perhaps if they didn't go out of their way to editorialize in their "news" articles, they might not be falling quite so fast.  There is a place for muckracking.  Perhaps that place is in news stories, but not until the "profession" of journalism owns up to their biases and drop the sham of "objectivity" that fewer and fewer people take seriously any more. 

(Oh, yeah, Stigall is a particularly good radio talk host, by the way.  One caller, a liberal, once grudgingly said that he liked to listen to Stigall because he "enunciates well.")