Today's Baltimore Sun, our great news source for credible and reliable information profiled the nearby community of Arundel On The Bay.
Reporter Andrea Siegel begins, "From where the Chesapeake Bay meets Fishing Creek, two Maryland icons are visible: the Bay Bridge and Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse. The peninsula with the view -- on a clear day the Eastern Shore is visible -- is home to Arundel on the Bay, a community of 350 single-family homes that seems a world apart from Annapolis, though it's only several miles away."
Okay--I'll let the reference to the Bay Bridge go, but they have been the "Bay Bridges" since CP was a child, but locals will immediately recognize the glaring error in this paragraph:
"Nightlife // In less than 20 minutes, a driver can be parked at Annapolis' Main Street and Historic District, where bars, restaurants and music venues draw crowds. A bit closer are the Eastport Cinemas, and the Eastport area's bars, shops and restaurants. Among the closest spots is the Ebb Tide, with its karaoke night."
Aside from the fact that she says it's as much as twenty minutes to downtown (well...yeah, parking might be tough, ya think?...but twenty minutes?) all locals know that the Eastport Cinemas have been closed--and for a long time as it awaits replacement by a grocery store. What film might be showing there now? The Big Chill? Night of the Living Dead? Dark Shadows reruns? And while I'm on it, since when was "Ebb Tide" in Eastport? How could a reporter make such egregious mistakes? What will she write next about Annapolis? That Bob Ehrlich is still governor or Marmadukes Pub or The Wharf are still open? Perhaps the Sun will tell us you can still grab a sandwich at Rodowski's Deli? (after which it became AB and T Bank and which is now PNC Bank). Hey Andrea Siegel--wake up and smell the popcorn. Action--and roll 'em!
www.baltimoresun.com/business/realestate/bal-re.insider03feb03,0,2620626.story
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3 Comments:
Cut her a break. She said LESS THAN 20 minutes and from Arundel on the Bay, you probably have 10 guaranteed.
Bay Bridges? Take the SHA to task as well--when was the last time you ever heard them referred to as the "Bay Bridges"?
She said the closes bar was the Ebb Tide. She was talking about Eastport in a different sentence, but I have also heard others refer to anything below Hillsmere Drive to be "Eastport".
But good call on the cinemas!
Dear east porto rican...I immediately recognized your style of communication--why don't you identify yourself? What's with the anonymity? Are you afraid that someone might get upset?
Anyhow, I don't want to cut a reporter a break after she just made such an outrageous, and inexcusable error. It's not a bridge--it's bridges. The other stuff?? Well, okay... meow, meow, prrrrrrrrrrrr, meow..
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