Leading Off: Home Sales
You would think in a DMN story about the decline in national home sales, someone would have thought to trumpet the fact that through October, Dallas is on track for its second-best year in home sales ever. I wouldn’t accuse the esteemed Steve Brown of merely regurgitating press data sheets handed out with the canapes at a Las Vegas convention (nice junket, Brown), but the News has been predicting/harking on/warning about bad news in the home market for more than five years. Brown and his cohorts seem to get their bad news wherever they can find it. But shouldn’t their editors have been the slightest bit curious about how the market is affecting their readers? Or maybe the editors just don’t know. They must be the sort who still get their news from the newspaper.
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If they keep predicting doom and gloom, they’ll eventually be right, since real estate is so cyclical. Stopped clock and all that. Not real useful to readers, though.
So Wick, with the “Nice Junket, Brown” comment are you implying that his trip was paid for by someone other than his employer?
Why else would you use the word junket?
Wick wouldn’t make that accusation. Just like he wouldn’t accuse Brown “of merely regurgitating press data sheets handed out with the canapes at a Las Vegas convention.”
To do so without evidence would be irresponsible!
Apparently, Wick missed the recent upbeat story produced by the Advertising department. I’ll attach the link for your edification and enlightenment.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/classifieds/advertising/homecenter/general/stories/DN-sah1103_feature.ART.State.Edition1.42aa5ff.html
Funny they mark that story “Advertising” on their website. Don’t remember seeing that distinction when RE advertising stories run in print.
trey, there’s a brown smudge on your nose there…you might want to wipe that off
assuming one of Brown’s editors wrote the headline “Texas market doing OK…” it seems pretty clear to me that they asked themnselves ‘what does this mean for our readers’
where’s the confusion?
or is this simply the esteemed Mr. Allison’s last hissy fit over supposed DMN shortcomings?
I lost my nose in Vietnam, so I don’t find that very amusing.
your misguided attempts at humor have reached an all-time low
joking about Vietnam?? really?? that’s your retort
with two uncles and numerous family friends that are Vietnam vets, i find your guile and shamelessness appalling
stay classy frontburner
stay classy
you people become more and more useless each and every day
Who said anything about the Vietnam war?
you’re useless