Oh, Donald: If they only knew you the way we do.(Viewpoint)

Crain's New York Business, May, 2005 by David, Greg

Byline: Greg David So Donald Trump has a plan to rebuild the World Trade Center site. The world outside New York thinks this is a serious news story. The drumbeat became so loud that even the mainstream New York media has paid some attention, although reluctantly. Yes, The Donald is fascinating, and nowhere more so than in the great divide between how he is regarded in New York and the way the rest of the world hangs on his every word.

Every day in May, the newspapers and magazines that make up the Nexis-Lexis database published more than 1,000 stories mentioning his name, though not all were about the World Trade Center. The developer of Ground Zero, Larry Silverstein, was included in only 204 stories in the past 60 days. It's ironic that Trump has...

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