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Old 02-25-2009, 03:47 PM
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Default The Appalachia you DIDN'T see in the Diane Sawyer 20/20 show

Diane Sawyer's special report on 20/20 about poverty in Eastern Kentucky made it look like 95% of the people there are drug addicts that sit around smoking dope and singing bluegrass music.

There is another side of the region not portrayed on the show: it's diversity, modern, and even booming areas.

Pikeville KY







Ashland KY







Middlesboro KY



Harlan KY

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Old 02-25-2009, 05:44 PM
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Don't be too upset, Censusdata. That sort of thing is standard operating procedure for the mainstream media for any area in "flyover country" (i.e. anything not in the Washington DC - Boston corridor or California). According to them, everyone in flyover country is a walking stereotype.
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Old 02-25-2009, 06:23 PM
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Middlesboro is very nice looking and Harlan reminds me of PA where I grew up. It's a good looking area; I'd go there.

NEPA gets the same sort of negative attention. A lot of people think that it's all culm banks, mining shanties.

There's always another side to the story.
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Diane Sawyer is from Louisville...so maybe she feels that Louisville is a little above the rest of Kentucky - and her view of everything outside Louisville is one of "rednecks, poverty, and drug addicts?
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Old 02-25-2009, 08:33 PM
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Diane Sawyer's special report on 20/20 about poverty in Eastern Kentucky made it look like 95% of the people there are drug addicts that sit around smoking dope and singing bluegrass music.

There is another side of the region not portrayed on the show: it's diversity, modern, and even booming areas.

Pikeville KY







Ashland KY







Middlesboro KY



Harlan KY
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Old 02-25-2009, 08:34 PM
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Diane Sawyer is from Louisville...so maybe she feels that Louisville is a little above the rest of Kentucky - and her view of everything outside Louisville is one of "rednecks, poverty, and drug addicts?
She's not from Louisville, she started her career in Louisville but she's from Glasgow KY.
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She's not from Louisville, she started her career in Louisville but she's from Glasgow KY.
Her family moved to Louisville when she was a child, and she graduated from high school there. To me, that translates to being "from" somewhere.

Sorry people, technically Diane Sawyer is from Glasgow, KY. But her formative years (and attitude/personality) are from Louisville.
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To the OP:
I don't see anything wrong with smoking weed and singing bluegrass music. Sure beats the stressful materialistic rat race that most people pursue.
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Old 02-25-2009, 09:17 PM
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I don't see anything wrong with smoking weed and singing bluegrass music. Sure beats the stressful materialistic rat race that most people pursue.
Ok , no to the pot, yes to the bluegrass
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