Usually I read the standard "Cleveland is high unemployment, high crime, and high pollution" roll my eyes and move on...but...

 

Um...does someone need to be contacted at Forbes??  How can they legally publish this?? ...besides the serious omissions...Fortune 500 companies, CWRU, Cleveland Clinic, CMA, Cleveland Orchestra etc...what is all this head-scratching false and misinformation??

 

http://www.forbes.com/places/oh/cleveland/

 

Cleveland is home to several industries, including household cooking equipment, textiles, furniture, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and automotive parts. Cleveland State Community College and Lee University are also based in Cleveland. Cleveland is the location for the corporate headquarters of Life Care Centers of America, the largest privately-held nursing facility company in the U.S. Its location provides numerous tourist attractions including whitewater rafting, mountain climbing and shopping within the urban parts of town.

 

Ironically enough, check out the great and accurate description they gave Pittsburgh:

 

http://www.forbes.com/places/pa/pittsburgh/

 

Pittsburgh is known colloquially as ""The City of Bridges"" and ""The Steel City"" for its many bridges and former steel manufacturing base. While the city is historically known for its steel industry, today its economy is largely based on healthcare, education, technology and financial services. The City of Pittsburgh is home to many colleges, universities and research facilities, the most well-known of which are Carnegie Mellon University, Duquesne University and the University of Pittsburgh. In the 19th and 20th centuries, wealthy businessmen and nonprofit organizations donated millions of dollars to create educational and cultural institutions. As a result, Pittsburgh is rich in art and culture. Pittsburgh museums and cultural sites include the Andy Warhol Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Frick Art & Historical Center, and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts among numerous others.

 

 

 

Share that with the folks at Downtown Cleveland Alliance, Positively Cleveland, PD and Crain's. Forbes has to be called out on this.

 

EDIT: I contacted all of the above by sending your summary to them.

Seems to me as though whichever lazy employee of Forbes wrote that summary somehow confused Cleveland, Ohio with Cleveland, Tennessee.

FYI, that's a description of Cleveland, Tennessee, clearly cribbed from the wiki entry for that other city.  So, yeah, lazy and moronic over at Forbes.

 

EDIT: I was too slow.

They also only listed the Indians and Cavs for the professional sports teams...

Thanks KJP.

 

Looks like mystery solved...

 

http://www.forbes.com/places/tn/cleveland/

 

^And University Circle is now downtown.

They also only listed the Indians and Cavs for the professional sports teams...

 

Some would say even that is too much credit.  Then again, so would calling Forbes' writers professional journalists be.

They also only listed the Indians and Cavs for the professional sports teams...

 

Some would say even that is too much credit.  Then again, so would calling Forbes' writers professional journalists be.

 

Oh I see what you did there.

submit to failblog?

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20121227/BLOGS03/121229914

 

Last article on the attached link...

 

Good job KJP  :clap: :clap:

Thanks. I wasn't expecting him to credit me or mention what I do for a living, which might drive some interest our way.

 

But the fact of the matter is that MuRrAy HiLL is the one who found it, not me. I just passed it along the lines.

Wow, that's pretty much bad enough that someone at Forbes deserves to lose their job over this, though they'll probably laugh about it and give the guy a promotion instead.

I am starting to think that Forbes baits Cleveland into checking out what was said and driving people to their website

*Shakes head*. We should come to expect this from Forbes.

Cleveland, don't feel so hurt by what national publications say about you!

 

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be fairly recognized, but everybody knows that in the West, traditionally, the bigger the market, the more pretentious the populace at large.  So when it's time for those pretentious, out-of-touch cartoon characters to demonstrate that they understand the world outside of cities over 5 million and they fail, this should be no surprise.