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Here's a story about a consignment store that has been open on the troubled Aurora Ave corridor. The IG video has reportedly gotten 2 million Instagram views, but the story is hopelessly weak, talks with no customers, no neighboring business owners, no neighborhood council oversight types and no word if it is at all profitable. Though not mentioned, the store is in the 10001 block of Aurora, three blocks from a dilaptatated seedy strip joint and five from a troubled Arco gas station that has seen violence, a few doors down from a massage parlor on Northgate Way.
I find it journalistically insipid and worse, it was repeated on Sunday news with the contextual reporter open and close removed with a fake sig out. In other words gutted. 2:20 originally, 1:28 edited down. Not to mention it used IG video provided by the store. Owner should have bought an ad, but didn't have to with this PR puffery.
I applaud the effort of the owner but decry the terrible, one interview fits all report, and using it as reduced filler on Sunday. Nice, lazy work from KOMO and reporter Moreno. Also on station website.
I know it’s been a while since you’ve been covering news in Seattle, but that block is incredibly violent. You bring some valid points about the reporting, but to pretend this is away from the violence… is just pure fantasy on your part. Examples: https://komonews.com/news/local/security-video-surveillance-aurora-avenue-north-seattle-king-county-one-person-injured-community-safety-gun-violence-30-shell-casings-fragments
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https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/soap-zone-seattle-prostitution-loitering-promoting-aurora-avenue-sex-trafficking/281-938cd6ee-fa3d-4d20-8b4a-544a99932e5d
That was exactly my point, friend. What are you talking about? Can you read the post, please? I drive past there to a docs office and I know the area and frankly fear it. Your comment is misplaced.
ReplyDeleteThis is what I wrote.. "Though not mentioned, the store is in the 10001 block of Aurora, three blocks from a dilapitated seedy strip joint and five from a troubled Arco gas station that has seen violence, a few doors down from a massage parlor on Northgate Way."
DeleteWhile it is great to see someone trying to make Aurora Ave a better place, one business owner alone isn't going to change things. Its going to take a combination of businesses, residents, law enforcement, social services, amd city leaders coming together to make lasting change on that deeply trobled street. While I agree that KOMO's report here is flawed, it could be just the begining of a larger series of stories about what it will really take to improve Aurora Ave, and the people who are already having a go at it. Those stories, should KOMO wish to pursue them, could fill in the gaps this story didn't cover.
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