Oh dear, tourism writing again
A piece from Lehigh Valley Live is amusing me at the moment. The Lehigh Valley is in Pennsylvania, bleeding across the border into New Jersey. It’s a fairly typical Europe on the cheap piece – Notre Dame was “built in the 1600′s” (actually the main construction was done between 1824 and 1829 but the interior we know now was worked on throughout the 19th century).
“Montrealers have a rich history of not only combining, but peacefully collaborating, with indigenous Native American tribes.” I see. Let’s just leave that one there. Likewise “While most everyone in Montreal speaks English, it is infused with a charming French accent.”
Also today, the Boston Globe has a piece on Montreal restaurants – but it also has a paywall.
Matt 11:56 on 2013/01/27 Permalink
I didn’t know we had a tango festival. I also didn’t know that it’s in the “not to be missed” category of events.
Kate 12:14 on 2013/01/27 Permalink
What, you mean you haven’t been attending? Philistine!
jeather 20:19 on 2013/01/27 Permalink
Well, Montrealers occasionally peacefully collaborated with First Nations people. And then occasionally they didn’t. It’s possible that the number of each type of occasion is not similar.
Huh. We really do have a tango festival. And that and burlesque are the big ones? Okay. (It’s in August, though, not May. Unless we have two tango festivals?)
Blork 21:28 on 2013/01/27 Permalink
Is that plaque still on the wall near Place d’armes boasting that this is the spot where de Maisonneuve strangled an Iroquois chief with his bare hands? How’s that for collaboration?
Kate 21:52 on 2013/01/27 Permalink
As far as I know it is, Blork. I was thinking of that.
jeather 21:55 on 2013/01/27 Permalink
That’s pretty collaborative, Blork. It’s hard to strangle someone if there’s no someone there to strangle. It lacks a little of the “peaceful” part, true, but you can’t expect perfect accuracy or even basic fact checking from journalism.
Kevin 10:01 on 2013/01/28 Permalink
@jeather
It’s a stretch to call entertainment and tourist pieces ‘journalism’.
Facts? They don’t care about facts, this is fluff.
William 10:49 on 2013/01/28 Permalink
Gee, there’s a whole lot of gift horse dentistry going on here.