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‘Inquirer’ Building To Be Covered In Bees?
In college, I took a class with an Inquirer editor who said he was a bit iffy on the idea of draping the Inquirer Building in green to celebrate the Eagles’ run toward the Super Bowl. After all, wasn’t this cheerleading, more befitting of NBC 10 or Comcast SportsNet than the city’s paper of record? I don’t really want to know what he thinks about this. The Inquirer wants to put a giant bee on top of the building. Today, Philadelphia Media Holdings will request a variance from the zoning board to put two 50-by-75 foot signs and a giant inflatable bee on the Inquirer Building to promote DreamWorks’ The Bee Movie. The Bulletin couldn’t get Brian Tierney or anyone from PMH to comment — but did spend an inordinate amount of time declaring the Inquirer dead and irrelevant or something — and the Society Created to Reduce Urban Blightis attempting to rally the troops to fight the variance request, because a giant inflatable bee in the city’s skyline is not quite what this city needs. “It’s a cute bee,” SCRUB Executive Director Mary Tracy said. “But if we are going to oppose the graffiti ads like the Sony people did in our poor neighborhoods we have to say they don’t have right to do that.” To be honest, the Sony ads were much cuter. Anti-Blight Group Declares ‘Inquirer’ Request ‘Un-bee-lievable’ [The Bulletin] |
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There’s no doubt Tierney is attempting to create a buzz around PMH but in the opinion of SCRUB and many newspaper analysts it isn’t turning out to be a good buzz.
Like those emitted by bees. The buzzing. Because of the large proposed bee. Which would buzz, if it were real. Buzz.
OK, check it out. If you go to the Bulletin website, and see the banner ad for “exclusive columnists” there is a picture in the middle of the banner reading a copy of the bulletin and giving the finger.
they should put an inflatable Alycia Lane in a bikini at the top of the building. Shouldn’t have any trouble getting approved.
Given the “newspaper” is crap and lacking in any sort of decent journalistic quality, being a shill isn’t shocking.