The Gazette, sour as ever
This is why the Gazette’s a pain in the arse, the snarky, sour, fatalistic tone taken in this piece about the new bridge. Reading this, this morning, was like a cold drink of leftover coffee with cat piss in it. Whatever this city needs, this tone is not it.
Tee Owe 12:28 on 2018-12-27 Permalink
Hi Kate
Love your description says it all in so few words – pithy, no If you hate what they wrote maybe don’t link to it? Otherwise they get lotsa clicks.
PO 13:23 on 2018-12-27 Permalink
I’ve felt like it has gone up spectacularly fast given the circumstances of weather, weight limits, etc., as well as the coordination of not just erecting the bridge but also remaking the 15 all the way to the Atwater exit.
Im irked at accusations of “mismanagement” that are seemingly unfounded or just seem to be name-calling. No details on The Gazette’s part, just angry bitching. The paper is dying with it’s demographic.
Bill Binns 14:32 on 2018-12-27 Permalink
Huh? Haven’t we all been saying much the same as this article on this blog for years? The article’s central theme of “this was entirely predictable” could not be more true. Nobody that has lived in this town for more than a few years would have bet a dime that this bridge would open on time. I wouldn’t bet on it making the June deadline if you gave me 100/1 odds.
This is an entirely fixable problem that goes unfixed for decade after decade because we have politicians that take vacations on the yachts of construction bosses.
Blork 14:36 on 2018-12-27 Permalink
I think the problem is that the predictability of the predictability claims is becoming too predictable.
Kate 16:04 on 2018-12-27 Permalink
Blork puts it better here than I could.
Tim F 19:35 on 2018-12-27 Permalink
Blork: Meta.
Kevin 19:35 on 2018-12-28 Permalink
It’s tough to tell online, but is this an editorial?
Michael Black 20:20 on 2018-12-28 Permalink
That’s a point, but it was in the paper, andvearly in the section. I didn’t really read it, but I notice the online version does link to stories earlier in the year, right there as part of tge article, none of that computer generated related links. Of course, like most of the content this week, it is year end wrap-up, somethingbtgst can be written ahead of time.
Context can change online, they have some filler on the webpage that never sees the paper edition, but which is internet, immediate and informal. And at least once they shifted an opinion piece from the off-island section to the main section at the top, again something not seen by most readers at home.
I am noticing that they are labeling opinion online, by prefacing the title with “opinion:”, but I haven’t noticed if that’s consistent.
Michael