tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439803544142853007.post9102069430005131745..comments2024-03-28T13:22:29.572-05:00Comments on Durango Texas: Boasting & BraggingDurangohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10231271044296466883noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439803544142853007.post-70916692441871238852008-02-19T17:33:00.000-06:002008-02-19T17:33:00.000-06:00I Googled 'Federal Way's Sanjaya Malakar' as per y...I Googled 'Federal Way's Sanjaya Malakar' as per your suggestion. The first newspaper reference came up on the third page of links. And that was to an article in the P-I. Of course the article mentioned that Sanjaya lived in Federal Way and that a couple hundred fans had turned out to see him. No where in the article did it say "Federal Way native Sanjaya Malakar". Like I already said, I don't recollect ever reading the Star-Telegram type hometown/native verbiage in the papers I read in Washington. I've never read Federal Way's paper. It is a small suburb of Seattle. I'm pretty sure their smalltown newspaper did not have any articles that said that Federal Way now had bragging rights that made other towns green with envy because Sanjaya was an inhabitant of their town. I don't ever recollect ever reading that anything in Seattle, or Federal Way for that matter, made other towns, far and wide, green with envy. Ironically, there is a lot in Seattle that someone from some other place might be envious of. Like, I dunno, a public market that actually is a successful public market and not something falsely hyped by an irresponsible newspaper as being modeled after successful public markets elsewhere. And don't get me started on how the Star-Telegram hyped Cabela's. Maybe I'll blog about that tomorrow, Fort Worth and Cabela's. And the new Cabela's by Olympia in Washington. In Washington Cabela's did not run their 'it's gonna be the biggest tourist attraction in the state' con that worked in Fort Worth to get all sorts of tax breaks. And in all the time since Cabela's opened there has not been a single Star-Telegram article regarding if it did become the biggest tourist attraction in the state. There may have been a small article on the business page about Cabela's layoffs and having to pay the city back due to not meeting their promised employment and tax generation. But no article examining how Fort Worth was conned. Or that soon after another Cabela's opened in Texas. By Austin. I wonder if they used the Biggest Tourist Attraction selling point in Austin. Likely not.Durangohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10231271044296466883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439803544142853007.post-70908776100545418242008-02-19T16:33:00.000-06:002008-02-19T16:33:00.000-06:00"we've written 'Burleson's Kelly Clarkson' so many..."we've written 'Burleson's Kelly Clarkson' so many times that it's beginning to seem like Burleson is Kelly's new first name."<BR/><BR/>Sounds self-mocking to me.<BR/><BR/>Google "Federal Way's Sanjaya Malakar." The Seattle papers may not do it as often as we do, but they do it.<BR/><BR/>RobertUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16815700769275466271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439803544142853007.post-15874073650646534092008-02-19T15:22:00.000-06:002008-02-19T15:22:00.000-06:00I read the article about the Texas Idol contestant...I read the article about the Texas Idol contestants. Don't quite know what you could possibly mean saying if I were honest in the post I'd make note that you actually poked fun at yourselves, because that flew right over my head, that there was fun being poked at. The article's headline had the word 'boast' in it. Boast. Brag. Same thing. You actually think that telling your readers that someone from Oregon who spent a short time in Texas somehow gives your readers a local connection to identify with? Regarding hometown papers mentioning locals being on the show, that is not the same thing as over and over again using verbiage like 'Fort Worth native X'. I mean, the P-I did not over and over again say Seattle native Blake Lewis. Or that Seattle had bragging rights because Seattle native Blake Lewis was the runner-up on American Idol. At least the Star-Telegram has not used the 'green with envy' cringe inducing verbiage for awhile. I guess that type reporting also gives the locals a connection to identify with.Durangohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10231271044296466883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439803544142853007.post-65490204465556114812008-02-19T14:45:00.000-06:002008-02-19T14:45:00.000-06:00I don't consider it boasting or bragging, and if y...I don't consider it boasting or bragging, and if you'll Google any American Idol contestant, you'll find mentions of them in their hometown papers. Interesting that you should bring up Seattle, which plopped several contestants -- including the much-maligned Sanjaya Malakar, who was from Federal Way -- into the previous season of 'Idol.'<BR/><BR/>It is true that we often, although not always, refer to Bill Paxton's Fort Worth roots and Kelly's Burleson roots (and, if you were honest in your post, you'd note that we actually poked fun at ourselves at doing so in the 'Idol' article. I don't consider this bragging so much as giving readers a local connection to identify with.<BR/><BR/>This has become much more important in the current newspaper atmosphere. As the lead TV writer for the Star-Telegram, I'm writing about a genre that many newspapers, including our rival to the East, don't consider "local." But when you're writing for a Fort Worth audience, and Fort Worth and Dallas and other North Texas cities place actors on series and contestants on reality series, it IS local. Boasting has nothing to do with it.<BR/><BR/>Robert Philpot<BR/>Entertainment writer<BR/>Fort Worth Star-TelegramUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16815700769275466271noreply@blogger.com