Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Business Forecast

Some local businesses are worried the sign sends the wrong message and could make some tourists feel unwelcome. [More]
Which "local businesses"? And how many? And how have you determined they're representative of more than just a few

Who are they? Shouldn't they get to see if the market behaves the way they predict, or if it instead results in blow-back on them?

Plus it seems if a network affiliate is going to put potentially inflammatory information out there, it ought to be able to back it up. You know, so we can see if the scope of the "problem" warrants such attention, or if the motive here is just to gin up some hysteria.

CBS 13 WGME "On Your Side": On whose side, exactly?

What an absurdly untruthful-because-it's-impossible slogan.

[Via Dave Licht]

4 comments:

FedUp said...

It can still be Portland without Oregon, but it can't be Portland unless lots of Portholes live there (the whiners, not the sign maker).

David Codrea said...

Maine in this case...

JeFF Hoser said...

This owner posts various signs and changes them with some frequency I'm given to believe. Doubtless this "latest" ( which given the time lag from a ME restauranteur's announcement earlier this summer season ) may well be due more to the indolence of the MSM than the sign owner. Or it may be - given current events - more "political" in intent. Y'all decide !

Anonymous said...

I was just pointing out that Portland ME was just as infested with statist civil rights opponents as is Portland OR. I like to call them Portholes, since they bear a strong resemblance to Massholes.