Puke, gag!

As a local reporter, there is nothing more grating than our local government's fascination with larger media. Here in Brighton, city officials quiver when 9News parachutes in from the news chopper or the Denver Post deigns to recognize our community and in Fort Lupton, we bow at the presence of the Holy Tribune. It makes me a little defensive when our city leaders and citizens gush over out-of-town media, it's kind of like your prom date spending the whole evening with another girl. And when they make us look like backwater buffoons, it makes me wonder what all the gushing is about. In a story the other night about Vestas,a 9news reporter, with a backdrop of an equally gushing Jan Pawlowski stomping on an ant hill, referred to Brighton as "the sleepy town that time forgot." Such poetry, such B.S. How long since that has been true, was that ever true? And do we really want it as a moniker? Then the reporter pointed out the site of the new library had been vacant since the old theater burned down 50 years ago. Yeah, except for that lumber yard that we bulldozed.
I guessing having the spotlight of the Denver media, even with erroneous information, is still worth it.