{"id":44166,"date":"2020-08-27T21:56:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T21:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44166"},"modified":"2020-08-27T21:56:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T21:56:09","slug":"no-coverage-for-big-beaners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44166","title":{"rendered":"No coverage for Big Beaners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=BigBeaners%20%23racialslur&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/big-beaners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43033\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/big-beaners-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/big-beaners-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/big-beaners.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given that I no longer live in Amarillo, Texas, I am at times prone to ask some of my snitches\/sources\/former colleagues about news events that occur there.<\/p>\n<p>I did so the other day, inquiring with a media friend of mine about the status of the Big Beaners restaurant &#8212; opened by flashy and occasionally controversial Amarillo personal injury lawyer Jesse Quackenbush. My friend was pretty blunt: He chooses not to cover the story for his organization. Why? He believes it&#8217;s a non-story and that Quackenbush doesn&#8217;t deserve the publicity he is getting from all the hubbub surrounding the story.<\/p>\n<p>You know &#8230; I kinda\/sorta see my friend&#8217;s point.<\/p>\n<p>Big Beaners is now closed. I had thought the city of Amarillo might have closed it on some sort of violation. My friend said a lack of business led to its closure.<\/p>\n<p>Big Beaners had come under pretty intense fire because the term &#8220;beaners&#8221; is considered in many circles to be a slur against Latinos. It was a Mexican food joint, so I guess Quackenbush thought he would, um, push the envelope a bit by attaching that name to it. He stood by the name, which, by the way, I find offensive.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy, if you want to call it that, didn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Is the story worth covering? I believe it is to some extent. I mean, I have devoted about four blog posts to it. This, though, likely is the last one. I don&#8217;t expect Quackenbush to reopen it. He is a smart enough fellow to know how to measure the consequence of a failed effort.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=BigBeaners%20%23racialslur&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that I no longer live in Amarillo, Texas, I am at times prone to ask some of my snitches\/sources\/former colleagues about news events that occur there. I did so the other day, inquiring with a media friend of mine about the status of the Big Beaners restaurant &#8212; opened by flashy and occasionally controversial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44166\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No coverage for Big Beaners<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[9422,9392],"class_list":["post-44166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-media-news","tag-big-beaners","tag-jesse-quackenbush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44167,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44166\/revisions\/44167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}