Donovan: Lokeman DUI arrest is news to us

Kansas City Star reader representative Derek Donovan says no one in the newsroom at 18th and Grand knew that former columnist Rhonda Chriss Lokeman had been arrested for drunken driving.

“It was news to me,” Donovan wrote. “And as I discovered when I asked editors in the newsroom, nobody there knew about it there either, from the police/justice assistant city editor on up to editor and vice president Mike Fannin.”

Donovan explained that Star reporters don’t fish through daily records of traffic violations and arrests. “Most media don’t find out about traffic stops and arrests of notable people unless some tips them off,” Donovan wrote.

I feel for Derek and everyone at the Star who had to touch the Lokeman story. Especially knowing she’s the boss man’s wife.