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August 6, 2006
The Score: That chap Bruce is Doing a Ratner
NY Daily News
Sports columnists Michael O'Keefe and Teri Thompson carry an item you won't see on the telly, as they have a wee bit o' fun covering "Doing a Ratner."
According to Wikipedia, "Doing a Ratner" is a British phrase referring to a business executive who disparages his company's products and customers, frequently with disastrous results.
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Wikipedia notes, however, that Caring Bruce Ratner has also suffered from foot-in-mouth disease: "On the other side of The Pond, a Forest City Enterprises executive, developer Bruce Ratner, characterized his own Atlantic Center mall as 'not something that we're terribly proud of.' Additionally, in May 2004, Bruce Ratner memorably insulted customers who live near the same mall to a New York Times reporter: 'Here you're in an urban area, you're next to projects, you've got tough kids.'"We don't know what "Doing a Dolan" means in England, but here in New York, it loosely translates to "running a premier sports franchise into the ground."
NoLandGrab: In Brooklyn, "Doing a Dolan" means shelling out $13 million dollars on a PR campaign to derail new sports-venue competition.
Regrettably, Dolan isn't "Doing a Dolan" on "Caring Bruce."
Posted by lumi at August 6, 2006 9:17 AM