Dateline News Special “City of Heartbreak and Hope”
2010
‘Dateline’ To Air Detroit Special
Chris Hansen Hosts Hour-Long Detroit Special
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- The Motor City is hurting and we all know it.
The city that drives the world continues to get slammed with negative headlines, such as CNN’s most “Dangerous Cities in the World” list, the auto industry’s plight, the lowest literacy rates in the country and record unemployment numbers.
National network camera crews and a “Dateline” correspondent with close personal ties to Detroit have been scouring the streets for the past ten months to bring Detroiter’s fight for revival and survival to a national arena.
Read on..http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36602267/
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I’m sorry that the special turned out to be such a bust, especially when portraying child literacy issues in the city – Dateline could have shown that more was being done.
I agree that the portrayal of Detroit was accurate HOWEVER it was most certainly slanted. He showed what a bad state Detroit was in, but did he look at why?
Where was the segment on how nearly every other major American city enjoys generous financial support from the State? Taxpayers in up state New York pay taxes for NYC, Taxpayers in Illinois have a tax for Chicago.
Where was the segment on how Urban Sprawl has been slowly rotting the city since the 1970s or how the Big 3 “encouraged” politicians to ignore its decline and continue to grant massive tax breaks that could have gone into researching the emerging Service Sector?
I.E: Pittsburgh’s metamorphosis from Steel Town to College Town.
What I feel most people are upset about is that Detroiters know things are bad, but this is how the rest of the WORLD sees us. How are we supposed to encourage new Business to come to Downtown if they think everyone here eats Raccoons and lives in a dilapidated house?
Chris Hansen is nothing more than the newest, and admittedly most famous chicken hawk masked as a reporter to come to Detroit searching for the most salacious story they can find.
Where was Eastern Market? Where were the plans to build a light rail in New Center Line? Or New Center line in general for that matter? Where was the Urban Farms that produce well over 100 pounds of food per garden? And honestly, if I didn’t know what Beyond Basics was before Dateline aired, I would still have no idea what it was about now.
COULDN’T agree more! Particularly with this: “How are we supposed to encourage new Business to come to Downtown if they think everyone here eats Raccoons and lives in a dilapidated house?” That’s the larger issue here. Attracting new businesses and venture capital firms to Detroit is going to be impossible if they’ve watched that ridiculous Dateline Special.