As is my style, yesterday's post on the Century Fund was brief. In however brief a style I care to post on this blog, the topics are nevertheless extensively researched. While others may have chosen to list all the beneficiaries of the fund and the amounts received, I preferred to present a condensed version, hopefully distilling the essence. While that post concerned Donald P. Miller's legacy, today we dissect the remains of his Morning Call.
In Miller's era, reporters stayed on a beat for decades, and knew the back stories; they had institutional knowledge of Allentown. We are now two media conglomerates away from Miller's family owned paper. The current editor in the front office assigns politically correct topics to the reporters, for a dwindling audience who could care less.
In yesterday's paper, we learn that people who live in center city own fewer houses than those in the suburbs. The article concludes that hispanics must have less opportunity here in the valley.
“It is absolutely systemic racism. Whatever the power in control decides what they want to do, they can exert their power onto others,” said Becky Bradley, executive director of the commission.I will not comment on the article or the organizations quoted in it, or those who work in what I refer to as the poverty industry, but I will throw an insight on the fire they try to ignite.
From working in center city real estate, I can tell you that these oppressed victims are very glad to be here. They consider both the housing and quality of life immensely better than from where they came.
Lengthwise this blog post exceeds my preferred template by far. In conclusion, I ask the paper for whom they are writing? The victims referred to in the article don't read the paper, and the suburban home owners who do, are tired of hearing endless renditions of the same drumbeat.
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Two Points
ReplyDelete(1) Might as well stick a fork in it, this paper is done.
(2) As you pointed out .."people who live in center city own fewer houses than those in the suburbs." Thus allowing them to be more mobile. In essence making it possible for them to move readily if the can find a better deal. If there were any kind of oppression going on wouldn't that make Allentown the least oppressive?
It's ironic that the article noted that people who live in center city own fewer houses than those in the suburbs.
ReplyDeleteYesterday the Morning Call, a renter themselves, announced they would be leaving their current home at 6th and Linden, presumably for the greener pastures of the suburbs.
What they don't seem to want to examine is why people are fleeing from over-taxed, overly-woke, and poorly-governed cities. And they certainly don't want to talk about is their role in that flight, or why their product is increasingly irrelevant to those they claim to care so much about.
The building is now to be vacated. It's all but over. Don't let the door hit you MC!
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