Charlie LeDuff on The Colbert Report Tonight 4/9 at 11:30 p.m.

[SWMAP]

As to being taken seriously by " some journalist" you should add two recent articles in the New York Times, including a good review in the NYT Book Review and a third review in the Wall Street Journal. LeDuff is taken seriously - just a lot of haters here.

[Islandman]

As to being taken seriously by " some journalist" you should add two recent articles in the New York Times, including a good review in the NYT Book Review and a third review in the Wall Street Journal. LeDuff is taken seriously - just a lot of haters here.

Pretty much.

[nain rouge]

LeDuff, having had the career he has, adds a much-needed wider perspective to Detroit's problems. Many of us suffer from tunnel vision, having lived with it our whole lives. We create all kinds of bizarre distinctions and exceptions that have little basis in reality. I recently worked in our area with a group of people from down south, and I had a hard time arguing against many of their preconceptions of Detroit, which of course extended to the suburbs. When the city itself and nearly all of the inner ring suburbs are on a visible decline and the weather is predictably miserable, what can you really say to defend your hometown?

[TexasT]

LeDuff, having had the career he has, adds a much-needed wider perspective to Detroit's problems. Many of us suffer from tunnel vision, having lived with it our whole lives. We create all kinds of bizarre distinctions and exceptions that have little basis in reality. I recently worked in our area with a group of people from down south, and I had a hard time arguing against many of their preconceptions of Detroit, which of course extended to the suburbs. When the city itself and nearly all of the inner ring suburbs are on a visible decline and the weather is predictably miserable, what can you really say to defend your hometown?

Yeah I was going to say, I didn't really take issue with his interview. I am really excited about what's going on in Detroit and I love it here, but my conversation with y'all on here is drastically different from the one I have when I explain things to people back home. People here, even if we disagree, tend to understand the subtle nuances of the changes here. People unfamiliar with Detroit do not. You can explain it in a good 30 minute conversation maybe, but not in the 5 minutes LeDuff had with Colbert.

And anyways, even if he had spent his five minutes perfectly conveying why Detroit has a reason to be optimistic about its future, it wouldn't have been enough to change anyone's mind who is unfamiliar or only slightly familiar with Detroit. I think it will take years of positive press to undo what people think about Detroit on a national scale.