The best job of local journalism is not being done by any of the local journals; it’s being done by blogger Matt Foraker over at Sustainability, Equity, Development.
The latest installment (Tuesday, May 6) of his devastating analysis of the Rio Nuevo disaster can be read here.
I particularly relish this paragraph:
I've never met Greg or Hecker, but the cloth alarm is screaming. I have met Snell. I speak with confidence that if you asked these three to team up and bake a pizza, they'd drop fifty grand on an oven study, twelve grand to fly to Greece and watch them, $40 grand to consultants to study 1) dough, 2) sauce, 3) ingredients, 4) cheese, 5) baking temps, 6) pizza size, and 7) crust thickness policies. After extensive meetings and interviews, Snell would drop 75 grand for glossy pamphlets no one will read because everyone's already left for Pizza Hut, where it takes 20 minutes and costs about twelve bucks.
Love it!
1 comment:
Art,
Thanks for the acknowledgment. At least some people are starting to know about it.
It is a most interesting phenomenon, the blogosphere. It exists most definitely, and yet in some way, it doesn't. It is both discussed and not discussed.
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