Writer on Las Vegas Coverage: Enough With the Sin City Clichés!
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 11.15.07 | 10:54 AM ET
Liz Cox Barrett has a stern admonition in the Columbia Journalism Review this week for reporters covering tonight’s Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, but travel writers could stand to hear it, too. Writes Barrett: “[P]lease resist the temptation to use Sin City-centric clichés…No boxing references (which lend themselves to shallow jab/counter-jab coverage). No gambling allusions (which lend themselves to superficial winner/loser/horserace coverage). And, yes, What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas once had a certain appeal that other state tourism taglines (say, New Jersey and You: Perfect Together) lack. But it is no longer clever. It is cringe-inducing. Leave it out.”
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Photo by jena ardell via Flickr, (Creative Commons).
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TambourineMan 11.16.07 | 10:51 PM ET
“travel writers could stand to hear it, too.”
Guilty as charged. And I’m with you, Jim. But this so-called “debate” BEGS for gambling allusions.
“Candidates Crap-Out”
See? Fun stuff.
Jena Ardell 11.20.08 | 4:24 PM ET
Thanks for featuring my Las Vegas image, more of my work can be seen at http://jenaardell.com