Alaska Seeks PR to Correct Accurate Public Perception
Certain of our correspondents, with of course the exception of our Dutch post-post modern architect from East Dutchland, who has never seen Alaska except during a pan-Pacific jaunt to promote a gas-permeable carbon-fiber hut design based on a late Bauhaus white chocolate covered tulip bulb, may be able to confirm elements of the following story.
AP (in the Seattle Times.)
It's known as The Last Frontier. But lately, Alaska is worried the rest of America sees it as the Freeloading Frontier.Gov. Frank Murkowski says it is time for an image makeover. He wants the state to hire a public relations firm to change the perception of Alaska and its people as greedy for federal dollars and all too willing to plunder the environment for profit.
Ultimately, he wants to sway public opinion in favor of opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
posted by JAB at 4:26 PM
2 Comments:
This "free-loading" must refer to the unrestricted use of firearms?
Also, I am French, but I work in Rotterdam for the possibility of working for the excellent firm.
Several apologies, monsieur. I did not realize you were so closely attached to a national identity removed from your actual location. It is somewhat - I am sure you will agree -unlike an architect in the new European Union.
You know, it's the funniest thing, but there is a street in Anchorage, Alaska, named Latouche, which I drove on nearly every day for five years. You would like it; it connected a amorphous, underpopoulated condominium and office development to a disconnected, characterless middle class residential development. And I notice certain spatial similarities between the
new Seattle library and perhaps a powder-blue 1968 Split-Level in Geneva Woods.
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