Monday, October 6, 2008 , Updated
Austin-American Statesman trades on dated cliches in its “20 Reasons to Visit Dallas-Fort Worth” piece
DALLAS — The Austin-American Statesman has a travel piece on "20 Great Reasons to visit Dallas-Fort Worth" that might as well have been written 15 years ago. It opens by emphasizing that we're rich up here, see -- nothing like, say, the Austin-based Dellionaires, who are just country-poor next to our diamond-studded existence. We burn money up here, yee-haw.
So where should a tourist visit while in Dallas? Well, aside from the State Fair and the new King Tut exhibit, it's all the same-old stereotypical dumb junk: NorthPark Center, Mansion on Turtle Creek, the Sixth Floor Museum, Joe T. Garcia's in Fort Worth, the Stockyards, and can you believe this, fricking Campisi's for pizza. Given the pizza revolution that's hit Dallas in the past five years, it's nothing less than LAME that anyone would recommend Campisi's. The piece is written by lovely Helen (Bryant) Anders who used to live in Dallas and worked at the DMN, but whose reporting appears to rely on memories and little else. Shame shame.
She could've found inspiration over at Eats, where they've posted the staff's selection of Best Pizza Places in Dallas-Fort Worth, which encompasses most of the new pizza joints (and is drawing the predictable onslaught of comments in response).
Posted by T.G.
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Donna Chen, says:
It's just a ploy to ensure that visitors from Austin are satisfied with the superiority of dining in their own city.
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James Scott, says:
at least they linked to www.visitdallas.com instead of the horrid downtowndallas.org. Either way, yeah, that's a pretty pathetic list. It's the same list you'd see if you go to any other 'top XX' list of Dallas from any other city publication - you would for a little more from an Austin publication.
I'm surprised it didn't have the West End or Deep Ellum (not that they're necessarily bad places to go now, but every list I've seen talks about them like they were 10-15 years ago, versus what they are now).
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Mike Orren, says:
So, to invert the position: How much interest would y'all have in a (somewhat more clueful) weekly feature on what's happening in Austin each weekend?
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Scott Doyle, says:
Or, to invert the position yet again: Please, dear Jebus, PLEASE enlist someone like Austin-American Statesman to <a href="http://www.pegasusnews.com/blogs/pegasusnewsblog/2008/oct/02/hood/#comments">be a content partner</a> for stories discussing what's happening in the state legislature (and statewide, period).
It's <a href="http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/metro/state/more/">a subsection</a> in Metro, Miko, and I get tired of seeing the same stories mucking up the works everytime I clicky. I demand satisfaction!
But, yes, if you could post a weekly feature no later than Wednesday on what's going down in Austin that weekend, I guarantee Pavel and I would put it to use at least twice a year. Maybe even once a quarter.
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Scott Doyle, says:
Hell, make it no later than Friday at lunch...we could probably roll with that if we were so inclined. Not sure if you're halfway kidding here, but yes - it would be put to use.
Or you could just fly the top 5 non-staffers in comment count to Seattle. We can mingle with the Fisher fat-cats, hit up some microbreweries...it'll be a jolly good time, mate.
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Jason Rice, says:
Ok, I vote "Austin == Semi-Local"
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Clay213, says:
So what are YOUR suggestions?
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Teresa Gubbins, says:
clay, who are you asking
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Clay213, says:
You, I suppose.
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Chris Kidd, says:
Id love to see a weekly feature like this, something along the lines of a austin concert calendar or even show reviews (raises hand and volunteers for active duty)
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jtmbls, says:
Yes please. More news stories.
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