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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
My related peeve is how Calgary is obsessed with vague quadrants when describing locations. The media is especially bad with it.
"There was an incident in the city's southwest." Sure, but where?
"That restaurant is in the northeast." Ends up being in Bridgeland. Technically it is NE, but not "the NE". Just say Bridgeland. Saddleridge and Bridgeland are miles apart - literally, culturally, etc.
Just use the community names. They eventually get to a more specific location eventually, but it is so vague that it is nearly pointless to even start with. Cut to the chase.
Get off of my lawn while you're at it.
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The media is purposely "bad" with that from what I was told. People tend to read articles on crime/incidents/stories that are close to home. So the "serious stabbing in SE" gets more citizens clicking/reading just to see where specifically the incident happened. As opposed to "serious stabbing in Temple" which would have thousands of potential clicks gone with people going "yep, that makes sense".