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| WorldDisney
Tue 9/18/2007 7:41a | Whatever, just as long as this park get something most of the people who have been avoiding like the plaque a reason to go in soon!!!!
And hopefully the bulldozers are already ordered D. |
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| jonvn
Tue 9/18/2007 7:48a | "are not actual quotes by Tom Staggs. "
That's exactly right. I mentioned the lack of honestly reporting what was said.
The original post implies very strongly what is quoted is what he said. It's not. It is editorializing on the part of the paper, and the selective quote here makes it look even more so like what was said.
A simple and straight forward reporting of information would actually be useful. |
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| Sport Goofy
Tue 9/18/2007 8:14a | << Whatever, just as long as this park get something most of the people who have been avoiding like the plaque a reason to go in soon!!!! >>
FWIW, DCA attendance has been rising in the past couple of years. DL attendance is down year over year right now. Not necessarily the definition of a place people are "avoiding."
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| disneywatcher
Tue 9/18/2007 10:56a | >> It is editorializing on the part of the paper <<
And would you state that as quickly and enthusiastically if the article from the Associated Press instead had said "Inside sources indicate DCA is doing quite well. Disney's CFO was even said to have been seen smiling and whistling immediately after answering questions about the Anaheim's newest park."
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| jonvn
Tue 9/18/2007 11:07a | Actually, what I'd do is not pretend to quote someone when they didn't actually say something. |
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| jmuboy
Tue 9/18/2007 11:12a | whatever.....DCA has never met the expectations Disney had. End of conversation. Is it a money drain on the company - NO. Is it performing like gang busters.......heck no. Tired of all the spin masters on here and every other board trying to paint an extreme picture in either direction. Either all doom and gloom or all sunshine and roses. Niether view is correct. |
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| disneywatcher
Tue 9/18/2007 11:16a | ^ And yet you pretend to know the Associated Press article was, as you said, editorializing. And I'll say "pretend" since I'm guessing you don't know the reporter personally or at all, you don't have an inside track on the way AP's report was handled, you weren't with the DisCo's CFO when he was speaking or being interviewed.
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| berol
Tue 9/18/2007 11:21a | Reporters are forever messing up direct quotes and worse at paraphrasings. It's most likely not the AP, but a local reporter whose story was picked up by the AP. |
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| Sport Goofy
Tue 9/18/2007 11:23a | << whatever.....DCA has never met the expectations Disney had. >>
You are forgetting one major expectation -- that the cost of a new park in Anaheim would not break the bank in the event of a large economic downturn. The fact that Disney managed to stay afloat with the disruption of the entire travel industry after 9/11 speaks volumes about DCA meeting this expectation. Anyone that believes the Disney parks business has been smooth sailing during the past 6 years needs to have their head examined. From most business based measurements, the Disney parks are only now returning to the levels that they were performing pre-2001. |
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| jonvn
Tue 9/18/2007 11:25a | "End of conversation."
Pretty much. It's not all black and white like some people insist it has to be.
"And yet you pretend to know"
Unlike others, who think they can read minds, I don't pretend to know anything I don't actually know. I do know that what was implied by the OP as a quote by the Disney CFO was not a quote from the Disney CFO.
"Reporters are forever messing up direct quotes and worse at paraphrasings"
That's right. I've actually have been quoted in the press a couple of times for different things, and it really was not exactly correct. |
