Thursday, November 20, 2008
News / Chicagoland Chicago: reborn from the last time the NYT deigned to write about it
Posted by Whet Moser on Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:20 PM
But that gawking, out-of-town amazement — gee, there really is a city here! — has long outlived its currency. Well before Mr. Obama was elected as the nation’s 44th president — a fact that was proudly amplified by Mayor Richard M. Daley, who ordered up banners with a sketch of the president-elect to hang throughout the city — Chicago was experiencing one of its most blossoming periods in food, fashion and the arts.
Now, people around the country and the world are simply noticing.
The NYT's perpetual rediscovering of Chicago never fails to be condescending.
Adding: When Zeleny writes "In 1952, when an article in The New Yorker derisively referred to Chicago as the Second City, little offense was taken," my memory from the recently reprinted edition of Liebling's articles (don't have it handy) is that he got raked over the coals for it.
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cue montage of NYT articles about Chicago set to "You Tore Me Down" by the Flamin Groovies: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/fashion/13BOAT.html?scp=2&sq=Chicago%20beer%20lakefront%20parties&st=cse http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9C05E6D9143AF930A35754C0A9639C8B63&fta=y&scp=7&sq=division%20street%20chicago&st=cse http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01E1D91E3DF931A35756C0A9659C8B63&sec=travel&scp=1&sq=36%20hours%20in%20chicago&st=cse
I have to add, the panoramic shot of the lakefront skyline studded with fat shirtless guys and a pneumatic-chested Trixie waving a blue frat-party Solo cup full of beer in the first link is like, one of the more gifted visual character assassinations of an entire metropolitan region ever attempted. It hurts a bit because we all know it's at least a little bit true. That said, the NYT wouldn't run the same article about like, New Jersey.
Well said, ptb! I love the skillful cropping of the shot to render the skyline more boring and monolithic than it actually is, and the way it pitches crazily away from the people as if drunk or horrified.
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