Comments on: Diverse City

By: Pegah

Pegah — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:21:15 +0000

What? The street signs and the highway signs? Streets are proper nouns anyway, and everything else is absolutely visual, like Robbie said above. I’m sorry Don Lemon said that… I’m a fan of Don Lemon.
Anais, that second story IS absolutely disgusting. I mean, c’mon! And your last paragraph is spot-on perfect. We’ve both see remnants of these issues in the I.E. I’m sure.

By: Robbie

Robbie — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:02:52 +0000

You seemed to hit both of these issues right on the nose. I can’t really sum it up better. But I will make one comment about the CNN anchor (whatever his name), and one metacomment about CNN as Cheapskate News Network. First, as far as I know, there are no traffic signs that require you to know English. If you get a drivers’ license, you are trained to understand the red octagon means stop, and the rest of the signs pretty much follow the pattern of using color and shape to convey what they mean. Second, the Cheapskate News Network used a local news broadcast to do their reporting for them instead of actually sending an actual reporter to do some real work in the field. Of course, the budget for having the anchor gab with a reporter from the Dallas Morning News was almost nothing, so of course they were able to handle that. I give the Cheapskate News Network’s coverage of this very interesting story an F+ (the plus is because they didn’t go super-racist in the way that Fox News probably would have).

By: Anais

Anais — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:02:45 +0000

Here’s the link to that second story. Sorry I missed it.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/26/national/main5422261.shtml