plainpaul

too heart breaking to watch again, but a great piece of video journalism from the NYTimes - it paints a haunting, post-apocalyptic picture of a city rotting at the core, full of ‘hookers and drug dealers’ and scrappers willing to sell our steel to China for 11 cents a pound.  the video fails to report that this activity is occurring on the fringes of our city, in the southern, more heavily industrialized areas with a low population density and a lack of economic activity.  unfortunate, yes, but representative of the state of the city of Detroit? no.