01 February 2019

Downtown Mesa Monument-To-Failure Gets A "Feel-Good" Make-Over

Here we go again! Your MesaZona blogger cringes every time there are attempts to Spoon-Feed tricky narratives to the public. Here's the last put out yesterday by a tag-team of two reporters:
Downtown Mesa 'eyesore' to transform into 5-story apartment, commercial complex
Lauren Castle and Lindsey Collom, Arizona Republic 
Published 11:16 a.m. MT Jan. 31, 2019
Updated 5:37 p.m. MT Jan. 31, 2019
. . . and once again it's the ever-excited Jivin' John Giles saying one more time "We're very excited," Mesa Mayor John Giles said Wednesday. "This is going to be a great entry point to welcome people to a new and improved downtown Mesa."
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HOW MANY MORE "COMMERCIAL COMPLEXES" DO CITY OFFICIALS THINK WE NEED IN NEGLECTED-AND-DISTRESSED DOWNTOWN MESA??
We already have at least 10 on Main Street that are either 'under-used' or vacant!
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Don't know about you, dear readers but repeated fast pitches like these from mainstream media always deserve to get called "foul balls" thrown out over-the-plate for consumption by the public sitting-on-the-sidelines most of the time while under-handed land-deals are done in-private and behind-the-scenes ahead of time.
Some of the players in-the-game are never revealed
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How do city officials try "to fix' the game?
1. Get the-story-they-want-to-get-told assigned to two reporters who write what city officials want them to write.
2. Throw in a vague catch-all-phrase like "a new and improved downtown Mesa".
3. Let's play ball in the outfield of public opinion.


OK. Buy me some peanuts-and-cracker jacks and I might believe it!   NOT
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Please take the time to read the latest "Spoon-Fed News" - there's more
"The sale of the land is just one of the city land deals approved in January. Mesa also will sell land for another hotel near the Chicago Cubs spring-training complex and auction off city-owned land further east. . . "
LINK > https://www.azcentral.com Story 31 Jan 2019
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