Schaumburg may build 40- to 50-story residential high-rise
#51
Posted 18 April 2005 - 02:30 PM
#52
Posted 18 April 2005 - 03:00 PM
All I want to know is how to get the ST to stop throwing a newspaper in my yard every week. I don't take the paper because I'd rather read my news online rather than wasting paper... I'm not a tree hugger or anything. But, I really don't like having unwanted papers thrown on my lawn. Seriously, how do I get them to stop?
I would suggest picking them up and throwing them right back at the front door entryway of the FWST. Over where the automatic doors open up every time you walk by it. I like giving the VADER waive everytime I pass it. :ph34r:
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#53
Posted 18 April 2005 - 03:33 PM
TCOLE AND LOBSTER, believe it or not, the Star-Telegram is one of only a few newspapers that are run just as they have always been, like an independent newspaper.
me responding to your "you should be ashamed of yourself" post doesn't imply that your posts are not welcomed here, nor does it somehow imply that I am anti-star telegram.. not sure where you got that from
I work at the S-T
..so then you of all people should encourage the free flow of thought and be accepting of critical editorials, no?
Lets give new project announcements the benefit of the doubt and encourage developers to make the best projects for our city rather than make fun of them.
Geez, it's not like we're mocking the Wright brothers laughing off the invention of the airplane.. Developers are welcomed to go wild with ideas and projects, and those projects that do actually come to fruition are certainly applauded -- Everyone and everything is subject to scrutiny and sarcasm. That's what makes forum participation fun. Sense of humor... look into it
#54
Posted 18 April 2005 - 06:35 PM
I am reminded of a story about a boy who cried wolf one too many times. When the **** ***** Startlegram continues to print RUMORS as actual news then they will be met with a considerable amount of skepticism. What do you expect from us? Should we all scream like little schoolgirls because downtown will have "3-5 50 story buildings" under construction within 2 years? Notice the QUOTATION marks.
#55 gdvanc
Posted 18 April 2005 - 11:09 PM
* I know a few S-T employees. They are dedicated, conscientious, and talented. Others on the forum have expressed similar opinioins so I'm sure the paper has many such employees. Yet, it is a mediocre paper. A great city deserves a great paper.
* Good talent + X = Mediocre Product. X = Mediocre leadership? Whether that's in Fort Worth or the west coast hardly matters.
* Separating fact from rumor, gospel from gossip, and realistic projects from self-serving spin takes a bit more work than typing up a story. Back in the old days, they'd do somthing called "fact-checking" and with enough time maybe some "research". Nowadays maybe it's just an overworked editor's decision. Blame it on having to compete with the immediacy of tv and radio and, heaven knows, the Internet; blame it on a desire to balance something against the bad news; blame it on cost-cutting; whatever it is, the Star-Telegram is certainly not the only newspaper to struggle with this. I'm down to about one paper I can read regularly without getting depressed about the state of (print) journalism. Let me just add that it has become laughably easy to spread urban legends in this environment. Unwitting vectors everywhere.
* I will feel free to criticize the Star-Telegram and I hope others do as well. Why? Because it can be a good paper. Companies are much less likely to improve their products if their customers are blindly loyal (think Detroit in the 80's). Complacent customers can kill a company's long-term prospects and in this media environment the deck chairs are stacked against even the stronger newspapers.
I will continue to post.
Good - that's what we're here for. Hard to expect all 300 of us to agree on everything, but the disagreements are half the fun and most of the education.
The Star-Telegram today is still run just like it was when Amon Carter was around and changing hands from one mega media company to another hasn't changed it very much.
I have wondered if the paper acted any more as the fourth estate when Amon was in charge (and the paper was still proud enough of its hometown to include "Fort Worth" in the masthead).
I recall when I first heard about the Landmark Tower project it was via a quarter page ad that ran numerous times in the paper. Doesn't that give it some creditbility?
Goodness, no! Something I've learned in my 40+ years: not every claim made in an advertisement is entirely credible. Seriously. Check it out.
Just because a project fails in the long run, doesn't mean it wasn't newsworthy at some point.
True, and just because it is announced doesn't mean it is newsworthy - at least not in the form in which it is issued by the developer. By the way, I'm planning to build a 60-story mixed-use tower with an aquarium in its revolving base and a suburban-style Walgreens as a crown. I've already got indications of interest from several retailers, including Starbucks, two Brinkers restaurants, and an optometrist d/b/a Trinity River Vision.
Feel free to print every developers dream projects. Just ... maybe ... you know, put down the pompons first. Do the journalism thing.
Lets give new project announcements the benefit of the doubt and encourage developers to make the best projects for our city rather than make fun of them.
* First, I'll stick with trying to make a critical evaluation of the news I get from any source. Seems to become more necessary every day.
* Second, I do encourage developers to make the best projects for our city. We may not agree on what that means.
* Third, I reserve the right to make fun of them (and of the Star-Telegram) when I think it's called for. Or when I'm just in one of my moods. I'm clearly in one of them now. :-)
#56
Posted 18 April 2005 - 11:48 PM
Making fun of papers... an American tradition since 1729!
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