Being from Kentucky, I have never really been concerned with the city of Detroit since it is a northern city and doesn't really concern me. So I learned a lot from this article. I always kind of knew that Detroit had a lot of crime, but that is about it. I didn't know that the city was bankrupt and apparently that was a huge deal. The article points out how when Detroit was on the cover of every newspaper with the story of how they were bankrupt, all the newspapers talked about was negativity and how bad the situation was. They never pointed out an positive point or talked about how Detroit could bounce back from it. This is just a prime example of how the media always makes us look at the negative things. You rarely hear a happy enlightening story on the news, it is almost always bad. The author of the article visited Detroit and saw the run down city, had been told to not be alarmed if he heard explosions, and so he instantly formed his opinion that Detroit was a bad place. And then he overheard two people talking about how Mark Wahlberg was in town and he immediately felt bad for assuming things. The main part of the article that grabbed my attention was when he was talking about the good things, like the Heidelberg project, Kendrick Lamar concert, Belle Isle park, and the Hart Plaza Amphitheater.  This grabbed my attention because he would act all excited about these great things, and then talk about how deserted they were and how people weren’t actually using them. The Belle Isle park is huge and he said it was completely empty. The said the Hart Plaza Amphitheater was virtually empty except for a homeless man sleeping in it. Then he saw the vandalism and definitely felt discouraged. He talked about how the Kendrick concert was awesome, everyone was singing and having a great time and they all forgot about the horrible things happening in the city outside of the concert. It really took a famous person to come to this city to get people to go out and enjoy themselves. Basically what I got from this article is that people let the bad things overpower the good things in life.