I’ll let Jordan Green’s comments speak for themselves. In response to Wharton’s post criticizing aspects of his Yes! Weekly article on development in Greensboro, Green writes:
My approach with this story was a bit unorthodox in that I clearly took a stance: It’s a broadside. I’m as interested in provoking a discussion as reciting facts….. I confess that I was not aware of staff’s efforts to encourage compact development after the adoption of the comprehensive plan. If I had known that “developers cried foul, and the city council told staff to cut it out,” I probably would have included that in my lede…..
The moving-target nature of these efforts is such that as the city moves on to a new project the ones recently completely are apt to begin a slow decline. I ask whether these efforts are too incremental to keep pace with the further strains put on neighborhoods and people by the widening class divide and gathering environmental crises.
Oooooooh.
The other day I commented on the fantasyland in which newspaper editors generally exist these days. Now we have a reporter exisiting in that same world. In spite of some solid reporting, Green can’t help but interject his utopian view of society one that can exist only when government steps in and starts doing everything for everybody, but especially for those on the wrong side of the “widening class divide.” And it needs to hurry up, too.
But Troublemaker has the best line, over at Hoggard’s:
..green is a supporter not a reporter..see surveillance..I was shocked he didnt try to tie it back to nov 3 1979.
