I had a hard time deciding where to post this one, although it would probably be good for the consulting blog if I were to ever get that one up and running. 

Anyway, I was surfing the interwebs this afternoon and came across this blog post, hosted at KansasCity.com, which is, ostensibly, the official website of the Kansas City Star newspaper. 

Setting aside the content, because I don’t care if they want to analyze the John Calipari situation through the eyes of Kansas Jayhawk fans, that’s not the problem, I was more struck by this sentence:

Whether some coach at Timbuktu goes to Bumfluck, Egypt does not exist as news unless seen through the prism of Kansas basketball.

Does that strike anyone else as being unnecessarily coarse and unprofessional for content found on the website of a major US newspaper? I mean, I know they’re using “Bumfluck” instead of the more profane term that 99 out of 100 American high schoolers, but do they even have to do that?

I get that it’s the Internet and one of the advantages of the Internet is the informality and widespread fandom that can be professed, but c’mon, it’s a major newspaper. If someone wants to talk that way on a private website, then by all means be as profane and coarse as you want, but the Kansas City Star can  - and should – do better than that.