tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24427664.post1819459981050245861..comments2023-10-08T16:11:56.972+02:00Comments on i will shout youngstown: "ruin porn" or "how lazy journalists love pictures of abandond stuff"Jankohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17141703042787916263noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24427664.post-32063218790609283672009-11-23T22:25:04.542+01:002009-11-23T22:25:04.542+01:00Interesting read. I love abandoned places and for...Interesting read. I love abandoned places and forgotten structures but from the point of view that things were here, alive and vital and now the world has moved on. It's all very Stephen King Dark Tower-ish.<br /><br />This BS you're writing about, though, is exactly what you called it; ruin porn. It is lazy journalists who want pretty pictures to go with the story they already have written before they ask the first question. They just want a prop to help validate their view that the rust belt is full of dying cities and a ruined economy.<br /><br />What they fail to understand is that people can transform these places. These areas aren't stuck in time. They can be smashed and rebuilt, recycled on a societal level. That's the real story but they aren't going to write that.<br /><br />I guess it will be up to the people who live here.Mike Preleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09225308166354728460noreply@blogger.com