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« Bzzzzzzz | Main | Oh. Joy. » August 2, 2004Graceless LandHere is an interesting website that I just stumbled across. The Memphis News Bureau exists to ensure that accurate, positive news about Memphis and the Mid-South are available for use by print and broadcast media. Such news items must stand on their own as legitimate stories based on journalistic criteria. The News Bureau is jointly funded by a consortium of Memphis-area nonprofit, business-oriented organizations, including Think Memphis!, whose collective objective is to foster a positive national identity for the Bluff City and its environs. Simply put, rather than have persons outside the area stereotype Memphis as the city where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated or where Elvis lived, the sponsors of the News Bureau seek to inform the world about the Memphis of today.I think of Memphis as a flat, ugly, dirty city with casinos where its southern suburbs should have been. Posted in Miscellaneous
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It's not the capital of Mississippi for nothing. Posted by: B at August 2, 2004 10:13 PMAll I remember was Memphis NAS/Millington, Beale Street, and "The Brass Rail". I made a lot of money taxiing drunk Marines back to the barracks. Posted by: Sharp as a Marble at August 3, 2004 08:54 AMOh, I dunno. AS I recall, the BBQ is OK.... Posted by: Bithead at August 3, 2004 11:05 AMAh Bill...shows what you know. The casinos are in MS; city can't grow that way, although a lot of whites are fleeing the government of the city/county by moving there. Most of the growth is east into Shelby County, but now that taxes look set to rise by a whole lot next year, and the County Mayor is talking building moratoriums and "impact fees" on new growth in order to stall it, a lot of people are just skipping county lines and moving into Fayette and Tipton Counties. That trickle will turn into a flood soon. The city and county school superintendents were *both* (a man and a woman) reduced to tears on the evening news when the local governments voted to deny school funding requests by tens of millions of dollars. Next year, the City mayor (Willie Herenton) is threatening to take over $80 million from the County schools! Dirty and dangerous? Well, yeah! That keeps the weaklings and weenies away. If you can't hang with the big boys, then stay in the kiddie pool in Nashville. ;-) Posted by: mike hollihan at August 3, 2004 12:05 PMOh, as for the Memphis "News" Bureau, I spotted that a few months ago. As best I can tell, it's a PR front for guys like Henry Turley and some other downtown businessmen. It's convention-bureau type spin and marketing. Posted by: mike hollihan at August 3, 2004 12:07 PMSorry for the multiple comments, Bill. Sure enough, if you Google the names of the "reporters" for the Memphis News Bureau you get some very interesting results. No journalists, lots of public relations. I think MNB is a part of the local Chamber of Commerce Plan for Prosperity. Go to their site and read it. You'll see that a "positive" news website is part of their plan. Posted by: mike hollihan at August 3, 2004 03:16 PMDirty and dangerous? Well, yeah! That keeps the weaklings and weenies away. If you can't hang with the big boys, then stay in the kiddie pool in Nashville. Hah! Very funny!
Memphis: The city built on a bluff. I know, I grew up there. Posted by: Lynn Carrier at August 4, 2004 10:05 AMPost a comment
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