Continental Coverage ...
It's been awhile since I've used this forum, but I figure it's time to bring it back to life.
Here's the issue today: media coverage of the demolition of the Continental, the old black box punk club on Franklin Street in downtown Buffalo. It was a lot of things for a lot of people. Soon it will be a high-end hotel (or at least the parking garage for one) for business folk visiting Buffalo?
So how did the media cover it?
Here's coverage from Channel 4 (WIVB, the CBS affiliate):
And now here's Channel 7 (WKBW, the ABC affiliate):
And if the embedded video is behaving a little strangely (and it seems to be that way off and on), you can view it at http://www.wkbw.com/news/local/61264502.html?video=YHI&t=a.
And here's the Buffalo News version: http://www.buffalonews.com/409/story/807030.html
So what do you think? Who got it right? The people who focused on the new hotel or the old Continental?
Here's the issue today: media coverage of the demolition of the Continental, the old black box punk club on Franklin Street in downtown Buffalo. It was a lot of things for a lot of people. Soon it will be a high-end hotel (or at least the parking garage for one) for business folk visiting Buffalo?
So how did the media cover it?
Here's coverage from Channel 4 (WIVB, the CBS affiliate):
And now here's Channel 7 (WKBW, the ABC affiliate):
And if the embedded video is behaving a little strangely (and it seems to be that way off and on), you can view it at http://www.wkbw.com/news/local/61264502.html?video=YHI&t=a.
And here's the Buffalo News version: http://www.buffalonews.com/409/story/807030.html
So what do you think? Who got it right? The people who focused on the new hotel or the old Continental?
posted by Mister E at
6:50 AM
1 Comments:
I'm pleasantly surprised that Channel 7 actually covered it as a hometown, cultural story. The other station and the newspaper just treated it as a straight downtown redevelopment piece, good news for Buffalo, boutique hotel, job creation, blah blah blah. I was only at the Continental once or twice, but I feel that a piece of history is being lost.
Rock 'n' roll clubs being gentrified out of existence, it's the oldest story in the world.
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