This is odd: CNN is running a series called “city smackdown,” where two allegedly rival cities are pitted against each other through opinion pieces and the readers decided which one takes the cake. So, of course, Seattle and Portland step into the ring. On Tuesday, CNN released its pro-Seattle piece, written by a Seattle local. Besides poking fun at our puny Mt. Hood (compared to Mt. Rainer), the article shares a lot of positives that can easily be found in Portland. Farmer’s markets, coffee, music— the usual. Meh.
I’m curious what CNN is trying to get out of this, aside from a heightened rivalry (that, after living in Portland for nearly a year, I still haven’t felt) between the cities. Just a sneaky way to write another run-of-the-mill “quirky Northwest” travel piece? Got me.
Catch the Portland edition on Thursday, if you want to read what you already know (let me guess: Voodoo, craft beers, and bikes). And if you’re all about it, go here to stand up for Stumptown.
PORTLAND WINS DUE TO OUR NOT HAVING MULTIPLE HOMICIDES TODAY.
Seattle hates everyone and everything, including itself.
Portland really has no fucks to give, as far as I can tell.
Yeah, I like Seattle just fine. Fucks about this are not given by me.
No fucks here. Certainly not being given.
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At one point in my life, I had a fuck—but lost it soon after moving here.
Yep, we outsourced our murder to Vancouver today. YAY.
alex zielinski is hands down the dumbest reporter this paper has ever employed.
it never fails.
her style is certainly unique. i’ll give her that. you could remove all bylines forever and ever and i would still be able to guess which piece of shit is hers. just listen for that confused-half-wit voice she’ll never be able to mask.
I would like to add that when I lived in Seattle, 90% of time I told someone I was from here the typical response was positive. Portland is liked everywhere!
Yeah, my extended family is all up in Seattle, and we all like each other’s cities. Mostly we eat and talk a lot, which goes well with either city. Although we are all awful nice.
Seattle “like floating through a stream/of fish blood, gasoline.”
Yeah. I really feel like the Portland/Seattle rivalry doesn’t show up until I start talking about soccer. Then it just gets gross.
If you’re seeking for fucks to give, look somewhere elsewhere!
I don’t see a rivalry that isn’t just a little local intrinsic thing and that’s fine. I like both. Anyone who thinks Portland is all about bikes and Voodoo can piss off. Like wise, Seattle is more than Pike Market. @8 leave Alex alone. Clearly you have not seen Ruth Browns amazing journalism at WW (sarcasm)