CityBeat: Learning How to Struggle (2002-08-08)
Ok, am I living in Cincinnati, or I am living in some kind of neo-Russian Transitional Soviet Republic circa 1917? How can this reporter write this stuff with a straight face? Charging at windmills can be a noble endeavor, but when your alternative is nothing but either a totalitarian state or a neo-anarchistic collective of contradictorial Zapatistaism, you really don't have much credibility with anyone with more than a degree in "International Movements." Me and my degree in Finance from Mother Miami find this to be laughable. I even lived on Western Campus for a year, but these kids are just beyond the fringe. City Beat is beyond being liberal. I am a liberal. City Beat is Progressive Populist. I wish all of the conservatives could tell the difference, but like these Progpops, they paint with a wide brush.
Friday, August 09, 2002
CityBeat: Watching the Detectives (2002-08-08)
Another advocacy Column posing as a news article from City Beat. I voiced my opinion in the letter to Greg Flannery the writer below:
Greg,
If Copwatch is so great and is so needed, then why has it taken them a year to produce one video, which they have not yet released? If the Police are just the racists they are made out to be, then why have they not produced dozens of video incidents? If they have not been able to obtain video of these incidents, then why not have a log of them on there website for the whole world to read. They could update it daily with new reports of police wrongdoing. I don't see that happening. I have visited their website several times and I have not seen it updated yet.
"Police brutality is going on and is being ignored," he says.
The he above is Islord Allah mention in your article. I have to ask, where's the beef? If they are documenting these incidents, why are they not posting each one on their website? If they want people to know what is going on, they have to tell them, and provide at least some basic facts. Generalities "reported" by biased "activists" are not going to win any support from the mainstream resident. I wish your "news" article would have had a few objective observations in it, instead of a PR piece for the group it appears you support.
Brian Griffin
Another advocacy Column posing as a news article from City Beat. I voiced my opinion in the letter to Greg Flannery the writer below:
Greg,
If Copwatch is so great and is so needed, then why has it taken them a year to produce one video, which they have not yet released? If the Police are just the racists they are made out to be, then why have they not produced dozens of video incidents? If they have not been able to obtain video of these incidents, then why not have a log of them on there website for the whole world to read. They could update it daily with new reports of police wrongdoing. I don't see that happening. I have visited their website several times and I have not seen it updated yet.
"Police brutality is going on and is being ignored," he says.
The he above is Islord Allah mention in your article. I have to ask, where's the beef? If they are documenting these incidents, why are they not posting each one on their website? If they want people to know what is going on, they have to tell them, and provide at least some basic facts. Generalities "reported" by biased "activists" are not going to win any support from the mainstream resident. I wish your "news" article would have had a few objective observations in it, instead of a PR piece for the group it appears you support.
Brian Griffin
CityBeat: Porkopolis (2002-08-08)
Flannery is beating on the City of Cincinnati for losing new development to Newport. I have to wonder how he thinks the boycott is helping Cincinnati attract new development? That would be the same boycott his newspaper promotes in every issue, he promotes in nearly every column he writes.
Flannery is beating on the City of Cincinnati for losing new development to Newport. I have to wonder how he thinks the boycott is helping Cincinnati attract new development? That would be the same boycott his newspaper promotes in every issue, he promotes in nearly every column he writes.
Browns ban plastic bottles of beer
This has nothing to do with Cincinnati; I just like rubbing it in the eye of the mistake by the lake. Flounder is crying in his milkshake over this I am sure. (Inside joke)
This has nothing to do with Cincinnati; I just like rubbing it in the eye of the mistake by the lake. Flounder is crying in his milkshake over this I am sure. (Inside joke)
L&N Bridge fire was arson; paint hurt, but structure OK
I missed this story, I don't know if was even published before today. I would assume that the arson would somehow related to the people doing the construction work on the bridge. I wonder if they are looking into any nut cases who may have had a more political motive for setting the fire.
I missed this story, I don't know if was even published before today. I would assume that the arson would somehow related to the people doing the construction work on the bridge. I wonder if they are looking into any nut cases who may have had a more political motive for setting the fire.
Thursday, August 08, 2002
Workers take Xerox to court for 'blacks in a noose' discrimination
More international media coverage, this time not good coverage. Cincinnati will not take full blame for this lawsuit, but indirectly it will be damaged.
More international media coverage, this time not good coverage. Cincinnati will not take full blame for this lawsuit, but indirectly it will be damaged.
Festival seating defended
If the experts ok it, then why should anyone else be shaking in the their shoes? The amount of hand wringing on some message boards I just wonder how many wild animalistic kids these people think are really going to buy up the $75 dollar floor seats to see the Boss. I can see where paranoid might grip parents if this were a Limp Biscuit concert, but the Boss is not going to get the moshing type crowd.
If the experts ok it, then why should anyone else be shaking in the their shoes? The amount of hand wringing on some message boards I just wonder how many wild animalistic kids these people think are really going to buy up the $75 dollar floor seats to see the Boss. I can see where paranoid might grip parents if this were a Limp Biscuit concert, but the Boss is not going to get the moshing type crowd.
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