Has our local media become cheerleaders for a new Events Center? Duh.
Over the past couple of weeks there has been dozens of ‘stories’ about the events center on our local TV stations. 99% of them are PRO events center. Heck, even when KSFY compared us to Fargo, they failed to mention that Fargo has a tenant, NDSU. Councilor Vernon Brown brought this up in his interview last night. And guess what happened to that interview? It got buried on their website with no video link. I emailed KSFY about the video link today, and later a friend called them about it. It is finally up.
This of course is not a surprise to me. It is rumored that Build it Now is spending over $400,000 on a marketing campaign, which includes TV advertising. It would be like Jim’s Tires advertising on TV station XYZ and right after his advertisement they run a story about defective tires that Jim sells.
The local media likes to claim that the News Director and the Ad Director don’t have meetings or talk to each other, but I’m pretty sure that excuse is a gigantic turd sandwich that none of us could wrap our jaws around.
Heres’s how it works. People give you money, you say Likey! Likey!
Is it shameless? Sure. Is it underhanded? Sure. Is it profitable? Sure. And that is why they do it.
Everyone is for sale, don’t forget it.
Heck, if they would give me half of that $400,000, I would shut up forever . . . or for at least until November 9th.
MISC MEDIA
Here is an audio link to the SD Public Radio interview with Barclay & Huether.
Read The Stampede’s strange endorsement of the project.