From: le@main.lekno.ws
Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> Louis Epstein wrote:
>>Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>>Louis Epstein wrote:
>>>>bryan_styble wrote:
>
>>>>>* Yes, I'm aware that a good while back The CBS Evening News relocated
>>>>>to the District of Columbia its flagship studio. That was indeed an
>>>>>easy but still bold network decision which now distinguishes that
>>>>>polished CBS production from the less-burnished Muir- and Holt-helmed
>>>>>newscasts O'Donnell is head-to-head against. And it was a shift I
>>>>>applauded when it happened because, why SHOULDN'T a national newscast be
>>>>>situated in the national capital? But O'Donnell's bosses' offices DO
>>>>>remain high up there on some double-digit floor of Black Rock.
>
>>>>I am always resentful when the national headquarters of anything
>>>>decamps from the country's original capital to that jury-rigged
>>>>Johnny-come-lately fractional-size city on the Potomac.
>
>>>You refuse to recognize Philadelphia? bonk
>
>>I am not aware of any particular trend of national organizations
>>moving their headquarters from New York to Philadelphia,even if it
>>sometimes happens,and it is less objectionable to me than relocations
>>to Washington.
>
> I'm pointing out that while the seat of national government was in a
> number of places temporarily before Washington DC was established,
> including New York, the Continental Congress sat at Philadelphia when
> the 13 colonies declared independence in 1776 and when the Articles of
> Confederation were debated.
>
> New York was not the country's original capital.
It was the first CONSTITUTIONAL capital.
Where the first president of the USA (of the constitutional
and not congressional variety) was inaugurated.
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