A highly selective list of recent mainstream articles about Detroit, and comments about the narratives they tell.
2009
By Daniel Okrent for TIME (beginning Assignment Detroit. Makes a connection between Detroit and New Orelans following Katrina. Ties Detroit's decline to: the failure of auto companies and unions to innovate; white racism, the 1967 riot/rebellion, and the "reign" Coleman Young. Strongly aligned with the rise and fall narrative.
2010
Dateline NBC special with Chris Hansen; 20 April 2010.
Focuses on individual stories of life and officials the city (including Glemie Beasley, Warren Evans, Robert Bobb), but does not examine many organizations or group responses. The short history in the film follows the rise and fall narrative, showing Detroit on the decline starting in 1967 and again as the automakers make large cuts in the 1980s.
