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Message: [QUOTE="DoctorBombay, post: 2485564, member: 626"] All due respect, and maybe I’m missing your message here, but the article seems to focus on the SU program, rather than the City of Syracuse itself. And i totally get your point that things are pretty bleak in the city, but that’s usually been the case for as long as i can remember. I don’t think folks are ignoring or dismissing the article(s), but are in more of a- “No isht, Sherlock”! reaction mode. I mean, do those articles tell us anything we weren’t already aware of? One of the reasons the media is loathed, by folks from all corners of the political & social spectrum, is their almost pathological fixation with telling us how bad & how much, everything about our very existence, SUCKS. I’m not saying they aren’t entirely accurate in some cases, but i am saying they make a CHOICE on what they will talk and write about, & what they’ll focus on. It’s no coincidence, IMO, that a day after one of our best recruiting class in some time, these articles are written to remind us once again, that we have little to celebrate. It’s like watching the news and having story after story, report after report of murders, natural disasters, and all manner of conflicts seemingly occurring everywhere! If you watch only that, all day long, you’d think that everything simply sucks, and there’s no way to fix any of it...so what’s the point in even trying? They do that because its easier, more controversial, sparks more emotion from the audience. Optimism and hope, for lack of a better word, are boring. But, winning cures all ills. We do that, and all the negativity in the world won’t matter as much. It won’t disappear of course, because to be sure the underlying issues will still be there. But for a brief period at least, and as much as they might prefer the opposite, the many nattering nabobs of negativism, will be forced to acknowledge something more positive. JMHO [/QUOTE]

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