Nice to see the PD being positive, though Machaskee seems to inaccurately conflate the Innerbelt project and Opportunity Corridor.

 

New hopes stir in Cleveland and the region

 

Sunday, January 01, 2006

Alex Machaskee

Plain Dealer President and Publisher

 

As we enter the New Year, I am re minded of my column published last January, in which I posed the question, "What's next for Cleveland and Northeast Ohio?" Although that question still remains largely unanswered, positive signs on the horizon give us hope and reason to "believe in Cleveland."

 

Our region has been plagued by tough economic times, but we are learning to pull together as a community. And collectively, we are fighting back to save Cleveland.

 

 

And right here at The Plain Dealer we are doing our part to enhance Cleveland's image. Our ongoing "Quiet Crisis" series has illuminated the problems of our area, gotten the public's attention and urged it to act. Yet we knew it was time to get out some good news about our town. It was time to throw a life ring to a community that has been drowning in a sea of horrible news. So we worked with Stern Advertising to create a "positive Cleveland" campaign that would be a joint effort with the other print and broadcast media in town. The tag line is "Believe in Cleveland" - simple, yet effective. It addresses the inferiority complex that many of us have heard about and some of us have even helped to perpetuate through the years.

 

Reading this paragraphs gave me a distinct urge to strangle Mr. Machaskee.  I'm so glad he's deigned to "throw a life ring" to save us from the continual string of bad news and the inferiority complex that they have "perpetuated through the years"

 

And right here at The Plain Dealer we are doing our part to enhance Cleveland's image. Our ongoing "Quiet Crisis" series has illuminated the problems of our area, gotten the public's attention and urged it to act. Yet we knew it was time to get out some good news about our town. It was time to throw a life ring to a community that has been drowning in a sea of horrible news. So we worked with Stern Advertising to create a "positive Cleveland" campaign that would be a joint effort with the other print and broadcast media in town. The tag line is "Believe in Cleveland" - simple, yet effective. It addresses the inferiority complex that many of us have heard about and some of us have even helped to perpetuate through the years.

 

Reading this paragraphs gave me a distinct urge to strangle Mr. Machaskee.  I'm so glad he's deigned to "throw a life ring" to save us from the continual string of bad news and the inferiority complex that they have "perpetuated through the years"

 

X  I know people that can do this  :shoot: ..and nobody would be the wiser.  :wink2:  In addition, you wouldn't have to mess up your mani - death is so messy!

 

I wish the plain dealer had some people that really lived in the various neighborhoods in cleveland and told the real deal.  argh!

Bump

Punch, is there something new you would like to add?  :? 

 

Is there a reason for the bump?

 

 

just the fact that 3 short years later, nothing like this would be published in the PD today.

The interesting thing about web boards like this is that articles like this can continue to bounce up into discussion, in light of other, more recent articles about the same topic, in a way that they didn't used to without a trip into the archives.  So it was interesting to me to see this article in light of the recent stupid potshots the PD has taken at Downtown.