KCTV-5 Sleaze: Exhibit A

Shortly after winning the 10:00 pm news race for the first time in more than a decade, KCTV-5 shows again that if they don’t have any news to report they will just make shit up.

The usually respectable Dave Helling contacted a rural Kansas man under the ruse of doing a human interest story on his fertilizer business, but instead produced a report accusing him of selling chemicals capable of beind used for a bomb. However, the fertilizer mix that Helling bought was merely flammable, not explosive. Helling cited “experts” who said the 20-10-10 mix was a bomb ingrediant, yet all experts contacted by the local Tonganoxie newspaper disagreed. Calls and emails asking the station to comment or clarify it’s report are being ignored.

Tonganoxie Mirror: Television report shocks business owner
and Behind the Scenes: How the story unfolded.

Contact KCTV-5:
4500 Shawnee Mission Parkway
Fairway, KS 66205
913-677-5555
kctv5@kctv5.com or dhelling@kctv5.com