Anybody can dream dreams. They don’t deserve big headlines on the front page of our only daily newspaper.
So will the Plain Dealer please stop acting as the public relations outlet of downtown developer dreams! I know that we all want to hear “good news” about our economic progress. However, “good news” that never seems to materialize is “bad news.”
I’m not sure how many versions we’ve now been entertain with by Bob Stark’s Warehouse District development. Does he actually own more than a small plot of the land? Another version found its way to the front page of the Plain Dealer again a few days ago.
Luckily, it was only a short six inch one column headline on Page One with the headline: “Developer adjusts plans for downtown.”
However, inside we’re treated to three full columns of some 20 inches in depth and a fanciful list of new downtown restaurants we can expect to feast at soon. Do we even need any more downtown restaurants? Anyone can walk around and find empty spots that once housed a “downtown restaurant.”
Probably no one remembers the blazing headline, top of page one in the PD in December 1999: “Downtown hotel, condos planned.” Subhead: Larry Dolan leads $130 million venture.”
Yeah, where is it?
This was another Flats area dream, a headline away from reality.
Maybe Larry Dolan should have been paying more attention to his Cleveland Indians.
The Plain Dealer would do us a big favor if it waited until there was some reality to these BIG PLANS before they have us dancing in the street only to forget that what we danced about never happened.
Let's print news and leave the propaganda to the advertising people.
Links:
[1] http://smtp.realneo.us/content/friendly-judge-helps-cei-squire-sanders
[2] http://smtp.realneo.us/content/roldo-bartimole-0
[3] http://smtp.realneo.us/content/gateway-now-costs-taxpayers-more-100-million-extra