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Sunday, February 08, 2009

Wisconsin Wants To Change State's Special Culture

Today’s Janesville Gazette front page headline title, We have a problem here, was a story about the obvious problems arising from the drinking culture in Wisconsin, and what state legislators now want to do about it.
JG Excerpt:
“There seems to be a culture of drinking that’s very hard to break. I think we have to change that culture,” Sen. Judy Robson, D-Beloit, said.
Just this past Tuesday, in an editorial titled, “What makes Wisconsin so special?” the Gazette editorial staff wrote about the role the beer drinking culture has in making Wisconsin so special.
JG Editorial Excerpt:
Milwaukee brings tailgating with brats, burgers and beer, then cheers for the Brewers at Miller Park.
Yeaaay.
JG Editorial Excerpt:
Wisconsin is Packer football, Lambeau Field and the ghosts of Hudson, Nitschke and Hornung. It’s sipping a mug of beer while wearing a cheese-head.
Just great. Without the beer, it just wouldn’t be the same. Now, it’s one thing having a popular and successful brewery industry in the state, yet it’s entirely another thing when the state of Wisconsin, along with our sports fans, becomes the butt of anything funny about drunks and the damage they do along with the lives they ruin. The Gazette not only looks the other way, but judging by this editorial, they celebrate the effects alcohol can have on sports fans.

This editorial also seemed like a sly attempt by the newspaper to convince Janesville officials (regarding controversial Hockey Team) that serving beer at a sporting event where nearly all the spectators drive home, is what makes Wisconsin so special.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very well put. All the articles and editorials about sobering up are useless if they can turn around and support serving beer to spectators at games played by teenagers. How else can they indoctrinate the youngsters? Complete phonies.

Lou Kaye said...

I get your drift about the phonyism. But I don’t want to be a prude about it. Drinking beer is not one of the worst things someone could do, but it’s worth showing the double-standard of the Gazette and city council members. There are some municipalities who will not allow a tavern within 1,000 feet of a school, yet our city council accepts a simple divider or ramp as enough separation. Go figure.

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