Just as we're talking about what Shreveport has to offer, this article comes out! The description of our hometown on page 2 is really pathetic. Come on, now...
"...forgotten corner of the South...down-at-the-heels city of Shreveport..." Did the author even bother to look up Shreveport in the NYTimes recent archives!!! What about the cyber innovation center and the movie industry.
But the author's right, this gas deposit is causing quite the frenzy around here. It's wild.
I'm the first to admit my lack of kinship with S'port in my adult life, but I REALLY didn't recognize the city he described and it has only gotten more vibrant since!
My email to the author:
Dear Adam, First thing I did after high school was skip out of Shreveport in search of more excitement, but your description is so inaccurate, I couldn't let it pass. It is quite a large, active city, far from the abandoned, suffering persona you give it in your article. It's as if you just made it up with no research beyond a photo or view from your hotel phone booth. If you have any interest in learning about the real soul of the place, you can start here: http://shreveport.blogspot.com/ or here: http://mahbelle.blogspot.com.
go, H belle! would love to know if he writes you back! when stories about the "hollywood of the south" first broke, i recall descriptions of shreveport like "sleepy river town." it's no new york or l.a., but i've seen enough sleepy towns to know that shreveport is no sleepy town!
the way the media portrayed durham during the duke lacrosse scandal was similarly sensationalized. guess it just makes a better story when it sounds like us "forgotten" folks have nothing else going on and something "big" happens.
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"...forgotten corner of the South...down-at-the-heels city of Shreveport..." Did the author even bother to look up Shreveport in the NYTimes recent archives!!! What about the cyber innovation center and the movie industry.
But the author's right, this gas deposit is causing quite the frenzy around here. It's wild.
I'm the first to admit my lack of kinship with S'port in my adult life, but I REALLY didn't recognize the city he described and it has only gotten more vibrant since!
My email to the author:
Dear Adam,
First thing I did after high school was skip out of Shreveport in search of more excitement, but your description is so inaccurate, I couldn't let it pass. It is quite a large, active city, far from the abandoned, suffering persona you give it in your article. It's as if you just made it up with no research beyond a photo or view from your hotel phone booth. If you have any interest in learning about the real soul of the place, you can start here: http://shreveport.blogspot.com/ or here: http://mahbelle.blogspot.com.
go, H belle! would love to know if he writes you back! when stories about the "hollywood of the south" first broke, i recall descriptions of shreveport like "sleepy river town." it's no new york or l.a., but i've seen enough sleepy towns to know that shreveport is no sleepy town!
the way the media portrayed durham during the duke lacrosse scandal was similarly sensationalized. guess it just makes a better story when it sounds like us "forgotten" folks have nothing else going on and something "big" happens.
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