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Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Heather,
No one disputes that there are benefits. The question is two fold.
1) Do those benefits outweigh the costs and the establishment of the idea that we will pay for business we might get otherwise?
The worst economic deal in Tennessee history was when Mayor Bredesen offered Dell $80 million plus to locate in Nashville instead of eastern Wilson or eastern Rutherford counties. We ended up paying to get jobs that would have still benefited the region for free. It looked good in theory but was a disaster in reality.
2) Is there a longer term benefit that will come from our initial investment or will we need to continue bribing projects to come here?
I would be happier if Nashville and Tennessee were working with private industry and banks to make a long term concentrated program to become a film capitol. Such a project would look at attracting all the different sectors of the business, not just filming. We should be the perfect location for that with all the different types of talent and technology we have.
Tennessee can be used to film all sorts of different locations and Nashville is centrally located to be the focus of all the production and ancillary work.
Re: “Stephen Fincher Loves Government Handouts, Just Not for the Poor”
Hiding his dripping cynicism behind the bible and claims of Christianity, what a sleaze ball. It's jackholes like fincher that give real honest Christians a bad name.
Re: “WSMV Exposes Metro's Makeshift Toxic Landfill (And a Scalp for Ken Jakes!)”
WSMV is doing some serious journalism lately. They also featured a story the other day about how KIPP dumped a bunch of its most problematic, lowest achieving students back into the public school system, right before TCAP tests.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
I don't watch the show and am not such a fan of what passes as 'Country Music" today. That being said, if (and only if) the return on investment (boon to the local economy) is in excess of the cost (tax incentives), it makes perfect sense to accommodate the show's execs! I CAN see where this MIGHT be a positive for tourism and local labor.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
I enjoyed "Memphis Beat". At least they shot enough exteriors and establishing shots in Mamphis to make it mostly believable. Unfortunately for us, "Nashville" may already have enough of those in the can from this season to be able to move to California with no problem.
Re: “Whose Faith & Values Is The Tennessean Covering?”
Actually, as a for-profit corporation (just like Nashville Scene), their #1 responsibility is to sell enough newspapers and advertising to make a profit for their stockholders. Of the subscribers that they have left, most of them are Gen Xers and older, who are predominently Christians. Since devoting a huge section of the newpaper to a gathering of 30 or 40 pagans in Burns might cause a few hundred more subscribers to drop off the vine, you're probably not going to see a story like that. Many of their current advertisers are "old school" business people who have either always advertised in a newspaper or are marketing hearing aides and scooters to the aging readership. OTH, the Scene is just dropped off once a week and if you piss off every one of your readers, they'll probably pick up another copy because, heck, it's free. Any romantic notions that still existed about journalism being above the bottom went out the window when newpapers went from being the big dog on the porch to treading water as fast as they can.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
I'm not completely educated on the ins and outs of this question, but I have several friends among the creative class who've been able to pay their bills due to the show.
I also think that time may tell. All the experience gained by individuals can only help their careers, and it may be several years before we can quantify the economic boost from tourism—not to mention other productions that might want to film here. I'd put my vote on the "keep 'em" side.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Don't let the door hit you on the way out, cast & crew.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
I like the show. And as someone who works in a hotel, people are coming to us because of the show. It's publicty for the city. We need the show and the show needs us. We need to do whatever we can to keep them here. If we are having to pay for a fairgrounds and a convention center and all these other things that make us Nashville, we can surely afford giving these folks a discount to show the rest of the country how cool we are. Because we are pretty spectacular.
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
"I suspect you mean that as an insult, but your odd syntax makes it unclear."
Gonna play dumb now? Is that because I hit a nerve?
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Well said Steve.
How much economic impact does the 'Nashville' production generate?
It would be wonderful if Nashville were to become Hollywood South but that will be a function of available resources and personnel not getting lost in an endless cycle of give-aways to the insatiably greedy and unnervingly tanned Hollywood producers.
I fear Nashville will cave to 'Nashville' so that prominent locals will get to be on screen and to get to hang out with the stars.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
As a Memphian who saw a show supposedly about us (MEMPHIS BEAT) shot in NEW ORLEANS because we wouldn't come up with the $$$ to subsidize production, I can only smile and shake my head. Let's put it another way: is the city's ego fragile enough to want to give the producers this cash? Fortunately, Memphis's ego, never known for its' stability, was not so fragile that they said yes, and the show died of its own accord, as it should have.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Is it extortion when we ask them to do it?
I do want to know what the overall economic impact has been. I did see lots of increased activity downtown on shoot days, so know that caterers and other various craftspeople were making some money, but beyond that, I am curious.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Have we gotten back all the welfare we gave them? You know, the supposed extra economic activity etc?
Should we feel sorry for this rich corporation which is trying to legally extort us?
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
Actually, bobs, my happiness is not influenced at all by you. My unhappiness, either, come to think of it.
In other words, my life rolls merrily along, and will continue to do so, regardless of you. I don't hate you; I'm merely indifferent to you.
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
@Anglrdr: Evidently you're not happy unless I treat you like a white idiot.
@Jimbo: What you're saying is that white people should leave black predators alone.
@Both of you: Here's a link from The Root I've posted before showing relative racism world wide. Notice that America is less racist than all the countries of Africa, Asia, and most of Europe. All those people in all those African countries don't want neighbors of a different race...hmmm. Maybe that's why their cousins in America tend to group together - it's an ingrained racial thing.
http://www.theroot.com/buzz/worlds-most-an…
Re: “Tennessee Tries to Bully Berry College”
Ah, the good old college days of yore, where I learned to ignore the light that illuminated my inner sanctum. I must admit that my brain frazzled when confronted with the ad hominem methods of circumspection that my professors often employed. I can't blame them though, for they were taught at a young age to bury their innate humanity, their very being, under the surreal skies of academic morbidity. My mind was so unpacked after classes, that the feral hedgehogs of the underworld would come out of their subterranean hiding places to mock my existence. Those are evil beings though, and I would ignore their taunts until, defeated, they would slither back into their holes of darkness! So do not back down, Berry College. Hold to your principles on this billboard and give these clueless government bureaucrats the proverbial finger! You will be happy that you did when you are sitting in That Happy Place, sipping cognac with the Bohemian power-brokers and laughing at the obtuseness of the rest of the human race.
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
Watching Bobs attempt mental jujitsu is entertaining.
Please, keep on; you're hilarious! And also so not a racist! (Guess which of those statements are sarcastic.)
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
NO you simpleton! What I said is that he singled out the target as BLACK predators, thus indicating that he was unconcerned with white predators or felt they did not exist (which is utter B S). Most people not wearing hoods on their head or swastikas on their arms would prefer that ALL predators (red, white, black, pinstripe) be removed! Are you totally unable to understand inferred racism? You seem to employ it quite often!
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
It would be something if the state had some sort of organization, a commission, say, that was responsible for working as a liaison between the film industry and the state, in order to make mutually-beneficial deals to attract projects to the state.