Posted 8:52 AM by Gene

Yesterday appeared a story by the StinkyInky's resident Real-TOR® (whose last name MUST be Heavens) saying how Center City's BETTER THAN EVER!!!!! thanks to all those $20 million condos still going up. And its population is SOARING -- to 88,000!!!!! Which, if the Census Bureau is correct, means 1,380,000 Philthydelphians DON'T live in Center City, and most of them DON'T live in condos. And the city's population's STILL declining. With stories like this the newsman tries to flatter his reader (not to mention the ad dollars going elsewhere). This reader resisted the flattery in part because he fears he'll never afford another downtown apartment again. To add to the misery the inaptly named Heavens quotes this spokespoop named Levy who has become to Philthydelphia what PAUL DRECK is to the movie business, providing snappy, optimistic, irritating sound bites. Such damnable press releases (among other reasons) are why I hope the upcoming strike against StinkyInky Publishing Co. will be a long, bitter and costly one, and that so many people will be so happy about not bothering with a daily newspaper they'll never read the StinkyInky or its stub tabloid edition again.