This time, the daily rag's "culture" critic writes off an entire decade. The only reason to write off a decade in NW Ohio would be due to ignorant "reporters" like this guy who do nothing more than join their colleagues in acting on the publisher's ill-conceived uses of his newspaper to denigrate any and everyone in an area in which he no longer resides. This guy even forgets his own paper's Pulitzer Prize, let alone the numerous other achievements accomplished by area politicians, teachers, coaches, students, researchers, artists and business persons in the face of adversity. People shouldn't choose to ignore challenging times; rather they should learn from them to better themselves for the future.
Anyway, here's the url:
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091227/ART16/912...
Anyone who either pays to read or advertise in this "newspaper" contributes to the publisher's continual community attacks and misguided civic manipulations that inhibit the promotion and growth of this city and region.
is going to get fired!
He didn't mention Tom Noe.
I just quickly breezed through it on the provided link, and it's pretty clear the slant was on news of an international/national flavor, not local.
And, looking at it from that prospective, it was hardly a banner decade, right?
He wasn't denigrating or pointing out the positives in anything local, because the focus wasn't....local.
You actually want the Blade guy blowing his horn over Pulitzer Prizes and Tom Noe?
Now, the argument can be made that he or someone else should write a story/column about the decade locally, and include the good with the bad. But, prepare yourself then for the self-congratulatory aspects that raises everyone's ire on here. lol.
The 1990s: Grunge rock, budget surpluses, Operation Desert Storm, the Dot Com Boom, funny Simpsons episodes, the end of the USSR.
The Aughts: Terrorist attacks, expensive wars, tsunamis, housing bubbles, your 401k, the Jonas Brothers.
There's a city full of walls you can post complaints at
Don't forget his gratuitous genuflection to our savior at the end of the story.
toledojim
I feel bad for all of these people who are apparently forced into reading something they don't like.
;)
Pink Slip
I hear ya Pink.
I don't know what the story says. I refuse to click on blade links anymore.
MikeyA