Convenient information

Submitted by lmcshane on Sat, 08/23/2008 - 10:57.

Brooklyn Centre gets sloppy national coverage on public radio's Weekend America for participating in Cleveland's Corner Store project. 

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Tim's take

I agree with Tim's take on this type of coverage.  It's bad pastiche.

alliteration

Laura, I looked it up--

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastiche

Reviewing some background material here, I probably would have used more alliteration, and contemptuously spat out the phrase "piss-poor pastiche," or words to that effect.

public relations, yes; pastiche, not really

Interesting use of the word "pastiche." As in "melange"? Upchuck?

 

I guess it wasn't a very newsworthy story unless you jazzed it up with the standard pap.

 

What we have to remember is that this is just one of the things we do to be a balanced, sustainable, healthy place to live. And you have to remember, too, that every time somebody truly depicts our actual value, a cheap new house in Westlake, Avon, Solon, or Mentor loses market value quicker.

 

There are many people who have a financial vested interest in depicting us in ghetto drag; we cannot afford to subsidize their poor choices, unthinking choices made trying to "fit in", any longer.

Ghetto drag

  I love it.  Work it :)