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Cross-Media Sniping

There's a delightful bit of zinger-flinging going on amongst the Post-Dispatch, Downtown's paid advocates and the (paid) pages of the Business Journal: in an article a couple of weeks ago, writer Diane Toroian Keaggy blasted Washington Avenue (among many other targets) as one of our town's underachievers, since clubs (now the "ugly stepsisters," as she terms them) have lagged while restaurants and lofts have boomed.

In an ad in next week's Business Journal, Downtown St. Louis Partnership honcho Jim Cloar fires back, saying that clubs have a "notoriously high turnover rate," and the area's other successes should be praised. No doubt he'd like Keaggy to join Charlie Brennan and others he calls "a better informed local citizenry" in finding the glass half-fuller, as our president might say.

As a snide aside, no one's yet asked publicly whether the Post-Dispatch should've included itself as an institution that could do better...


Posted under The Media by Amanda Doyle on Fri., Dec 3, 2004 at 11:10 AM



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