The City That Reads...The Economist?
It's not unusual for Baltimoreans to mock one of the city's well-known slogans, "The City That Reads." (The City That Breeds, The City That Bleeds, The City That Reads... at a Third Grade Level, etc.) But a recent study of 79 U.S. cities released by the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater rates Baltimore as the 25th most literate city examined by researchers. The study places Baltimore below Minneapolis and Seattle (the top two most literate cities in the nation), and Cleveland. But Baltimore, surprisingly, is rated as being more literate than New York City (No. 49), New Orleans (No. 43), and Los Angeles (No. 68). - City Paper, August 2004
and now:
The Economist, the venerable weekly published by the British company Pearson, is using Baltimore — chosen because it is a typical American market for the magazine — to test a new effort to increase newsstand and subscription sales, along with brand awareness. The test involves employees of the magazine and four agencies on both sides of the Atlantic. - New York Times, March 2006
Shit, 'Stringer' Bell could have been reading it while catching up with off-off-shore investments on The Wire if Avon "I ain't no suit-wearin' businessman like you" Barksdale didn't already ice his ass.
and now:
The Economist, the venerable weekly published by the British company Pearson, is using Baltimore — chosen because it is a typical American market for the magazine — to test a new effort to increase newsstand and subscription sales, along with brand awareness. The test involves employees of the magazine and four agencies on both sides of the Atlantic. - New York Times, March 2006
Shit, 'Stringer' Bell could have been reading it while catching up with off-off-shore investments on The Wire if Avon "I ain't no suit-wearin' businessman like you" Barksdale didn't already ice his ass.
