Cities whose Reputations have been: Destroyed (Damaged) VS. Overmagnified (Glorified) by the MEDIA (places, Los Angeles)

[carverR]

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

I think this pretty much sums up Hollywood's attitude re: NYC.

Escape from New York (1981)

I agree. New York City has a long story of being potrayed as crime-ridden cesspool. I still see the results whenever I am "in the country" as this view of New York is still well and alive in minds of most people outside of the area.
Hell, I recently met folks from New Jersey who were afraid to take their car to New York so it does not get broken into. Ironically Newark, NJ has been the US capital of car theft for decades

[houstoner]

Originally Posted by Gnutella

Trashed

- Cleveland
- Detroit
- Jacksonville
- Philadelphia
- St. Louis

Glorified

- Atlanta
- Austin
- Boston
- Charlotte
- Denver
- Las Vegas
- Miami
- Orlando
- Portland
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- San Jose
- Seattle
- Washington DC

Damned with faint praise

- Chicago
- Dallas
- New Orleans
- Pittsburgh

Ignored

- Baltimore
- Birmingham
- Buffalo
- Cincinnati
- Columbus
- El Paso
- Houston
- Indianapolis
- Kansas City
- Memphis
- Milwaukee
- Minneapolis
- Nashville
- Oakland
- Oklahoma City
- Salt Lake City
- San Antonio
- Tampa

Good list.

[newarkboy]

Trashed/ Newark/Glorified NYC DC/Ignored/ Jersey City NJ.

[taydev]

Damaged: New Orleans, Detroit
Glorified: LA, NYC, Atlanta

IMHO, NYC lives up to the hype, not sure about the other two. NO is a great place, I visit family there. i've never been to Detroit but I only heard of what is was back in the day, and what it is now through media

[detroitlove]

Originally Posted by caphillsea77

There are still people (a smaller ratio perhaps) living good lives, working good jobs, and having good experiences in New Orleans or Detroit or St. Louis. When the media has a whipping boy it only tarnishes the reputation even further. What if they reported more on the rebuilding of New Orleans. Perhaps more would be inspired to go down there and help out. You missed the point, you are seeing the glass half empty and that can happen anywhere!

agreed. The media loves to kick cities when they are down. True Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland and New Orleans are either always or majority of the time in the media for the "bad". I can't speak on the other cities but as I was saying in the Detroit vs Cleveland thread people tend to only think that all of the Detroit is trash and the only improvements made were downtown hence why when out of towners do come here they only go downtown for the most part. They don't show (the media) the new homes that have been getting built all around Detroit since '03 and the only difference between the developments downtown & the rest of the city is that downtown improvements are just more visible. If your riding down main streets a lot of times you may not realize there are new homes in the area because the main street looks like crap so why turn down the side streets? But I get a feeling they are trying to change that now since they have been bulldozing old abandon buildings in my neighborhood.

[detroitlove]

if you wanna see pics the positive of Detroit I posted some of the Detroit vs Cleveland thread and will be posting more

[openheads]

Originally Posted by carverR

Hell, I recently met folks from New Jersey who were afraid to take their car to New York so it does not get broken into. Ironically Newark, NJ has been the US capital of car theft for decades

This has not been true for many years.
Good way to debunk one falsehood with another.

[carverR]

Originally Posted by openheads

This has not been true for many years.
Good way to debunk one falsehood with another.

True, it is not the US capital of car theft yet it still much worse than New York City. Check the stats.

Nevertheless, the folks in New Jersey worry about crime in New York while their own cities are statistically more dangerous than the city. The fruther you get away from New York the more people are convinced that New York is a crime ridden cesspool. Thank you, Hollywood. Ironically New York is much safer than LA, not to mention Chicago and most other big American cities. That's exactly why I claim that New York is the city most damaged by media. There is no other city in the US that the media (film, TV) potray in such a negative and totally inaccurate way.

[Huckleberry3911948]

bagdad and detroit, very similar in condition but media gets blamed for both.

[Deezus]

Originally Posted by Rachael84

You're right. If anything, it makes NY seem like it's a big crime scene. People think the entire Bronx looks like the south Bronx did in the 1970s. You can thank Hollywood for that.

So for NYC, here is my full opinion--

1. TV and movies make NYC seem like all the locals live a lifestyle like S*x and the city.

2. It makes it seem like NYC is a crime filled cesspool.

I thought the reputation of New York City as a crime-filled cesspool died out after the Giuliani era in the 90s? I haven't seen much media portrayal of New York as dangerous place in a long time and living on the West Coast I don't know many people who would have that perception...I remember being a kid in the 80s and early 90s when every film about New York would always have characters getting mugged, shots of grafitti covered subway cars, etc---but that was over 20 years ago.

Now, Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore---those cities get portrayed as practically being warzones in both news and entertainment media.