O Street chimes in on her participation in last weeks Model D speaker series

Last week Model D held its "media in Detroit" speaker series. Oneita Jackson, Detroit Free Press blogger and copy editor, was on the panel. She had a few things to say about it.

Excerpt:

"Stop begging people to like you!" I get annoyed when Detroiters complain about how much negative press they receive, dismissing, almost always, the positive press they do get. If people come here and want to write limited-vision stories, I said, let them.

"If you don't like how you're being represented," I said to the crowd of about 200, "stop being the way you are."

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