Grocery Store May Open Near Fort Worth In 2019

In this last month of 2017 the Fort Worth Star-Telegram has been doing a bang up job of providing absurdly ironic, embarrassing, pitiful fodder for commentary, with, apparently, no one at that sad excuse of a newspaper having a clue regarding such.

This first day of winter's edition had some fresh ridiculousness of the Dallas the Bogeyman sort. We may get to that later.

In the past couple weeks the Star-Telegram has had a couple articles lamenting Fort Worth's "image problem", "identity crisis" and that the town has supposedly "fallen behind".

The falling behind image problem identity crisis was blogged about in Why Fort Worth Has Fallen Behind Developing An Identity Crisis.

Overnight, via the stats, I see the latest blogging has had a few hundred, well, thousand, page views. The majority of those are from outside Texas. I do not know if this is any help or hindrance regarding Fort Worth's image problem and identity crisis.

Which leads us to this embarrassment from the Star-Telegram from a couple days ago.

For those not in Texas, HEB is a grocery store.

The screen cap you see above was taken from the front page of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram online.

Yes, the imaginary newspaper of record of the town with an identity crisis and image problem considers it big news that a grocery store chain is inching closer to Fort Worth via opening a nearby store in 2019.

If one was part of a conspiracy to make a town look like Rube Central you really could not do a much better job than what the Star-Telegram does.

Does it occur to no one at the Star-Telegram that thinking such information to be newsworthy might be indicative of the town's image and identity problem?

I can not imagine the Dallas Morning News having a headline on its front page informing its many readers about a grocery store chain opening a new store in 2019 is inching closer to Dallas.

Can not imagine a headline in the Seattle Times telling its many readers that some grocery store is inching closer to Seattle, opening in 2019. Unlike Fort Worth, which has none, Seattle has multiple grocery stores in its downtown, and it would not be news that some grocery store is opening somewhere else, outside of Seattle, or anywhere in Seattle, for that matter.

Hence, one among many reasons why no one would ever suggest calling Seattle, or Dallas, Rube Central.

And then you have Fort Worth...