Journalisming, 2024
By Mitch Berg
“A Bar Of Their Own” has apparently had a good first month, according to this cheerleading press release.
Since its inception, enthusiasm has only grown for the tavern with the radical concept of playing only women’s sports on its multiple TVs. The idea was overwhelmingly embraced, from a successful crowdfunding campaign to an opening day met with cheers and a line of fans stretched around the block.
We spoke with owner Jillian Hiscock, who said the lines have calmed a bit since the March 1 opening, but haven’t dissipated. She shared a few of the stats from the history-making bar’s first 14 days.
The bar’s PR person is doing bang-up work, leading the cheering for their client, and…
…uh…
…hang on just a dog-gone minute. It’s not a PR flak’s press release. It’s a “news” story from the Star Tribune. Y’know – journalists who tell you the who, what, when, where, why and how of a story, remaining detached from…
…(sknzxxx)…
…detached and objective and…
…oh, I can’t keep a straight face.
- “The mega-hit sports bar opened with a big splash,”
- “the absolute dominator of a Minneapolis sports bar that highlights women’s sports”
- “Since its inception, enthusiasm has only grown”
- “radical concept of playing only women’s sports”
- “The idea was overwhelmingly embraced”,
- “from a successful crowdfunding campaign to an opening day met with cheers and a line of fans stretched around the block”
The “journalist”, Joy Summers, is credited as “a St. Paul-based food reporter who has been covering Twin Cities restaurants since 2010”.
To be fair, Esme Murphy is still more embarassingly effusive talking about Amy Klobuchar than this.
Seriously, though – new businesses are good. More power to A Bar Of Their Own.
But they’ve had effusive – let’s say “fawning”, even “embarassingly brown-nosing” – media coverage ever since the idea first went public.
That’s gotta be worth a lot of free advertising.
Which is what an awful lot of Twin Cities “journalism” is, these days.
March 26th, 2024 at 11:12 am
Doing a bit of math, they’re selling about 700 drinks per day, plus about 200 plates of food. So their revenue is at least healthy. The question is how much of that is chewed up by overhead.
March 26th, 2024 at 11:12 am
Math
March 26th, 2024 at 11:13 am
Oh, cool, the word “m*th” is flagged by moderation. Or I’m in permanent moderation?
March 26th, 2024 at 11:14 am
I’ve been meaning to stop in there to see how the place is actually doing.
I’m with you though, Mitch. IMO, Joy is a left wing feminist that, most likely, got a bunch of free food and probably drinks, to hype the place up.
March 26th, 2024 at 12:15 pm
A bar on Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis, dedicated to women’s sports. I guess there’s a niche market for everything. I wish them well but I won’t be going there.
I looked at the website. There were no photos of fat old straight white men which means I’m not welcome there, they don’t want my business. That is what it means, right? Nowadays, every ad contains images of the target market and potential customers are not allowed to extrapolate from those images to speculate whether they might also be welcome as customers. That’s why the ads must contain a young Black woman, an older White woman, a mixed-race couple (always White woman Black man, never the other way around). So based on their advertising it is plain that this bar doesn’t want my business.
Which is fine with me. The only women’s sports I want to watch is reruns of Lingerie League Football and I doubt they’ll be showing that on their many tv screens. Still, I wish them well.
March 26th, 2024 at 12:29 pm
You forgot the history-making bar’s first 14 days, Mitch. Man, what a trivial achievement.
PS And shouldn’t that be “herstory”?
PPS But every day, every nighttime I find, Mystery achievement
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March 27th, 2024 at 6:43 am
I’ve heard that the next step to the WNBA for Caitlin Clark, the Iowa GOAT for women’s college basketball (for now anyway), is a “problem”: Clark is also a white woman commanding a primarily black league. That fact troubles some members of the basketball community. It is my understanding that Clark is also straight.
So, here’s my question. Does this bar have the TV on for her college games? Will they if she goes to the WNBA?
March 27th, 2024 at 9:01 am
jdm, we might say that Miss Clark is seen as something of an “uppity honky”, no? Seriously, I do not envy her journey into a league that seems to be thinking that the answer to historic racism against blacks is to show racism against whites. I wish her well, though.
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