WRONG!!!! Detroit is not the 4th largest city in the United States!!!!!

[Major Hogwash]

As reported by Brian Williams of NBC News last night!!

Detroit USED TO BE the 4th largest city in the United States.
Back in the 70s and 80s.

But, the city that used to have 2 million residents back then . . only has between 700,000 and 800,000 residents now, depending on which source is used.

The media has been lying, overestimating the size of the problem with the city of Detroit having to declare bankruptcy.

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Correct. Detroit is the 18th largest city in the U.S., with Houston now #4.

[GeorgeGist]

2. Wrong!!!!

Brian Williams is not a journalist.

[Octafish]

4. Correctomundo!

BW is something else entirely, billions of light years beyond beyond "lying shill."

[BumRushDaShow]

3. "Back in the 70s and 80s." Um no.

Philadelphia was the 4th largest city from 1960 - 1990 and was 2nd or 3rd much of the time before that back to the 1700s.

Detroit hasn't been "4th" since 1940 (when Philadelphia was 3rd).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_cities_in_the_United_States_by_population_by_decade

[Major Hogwash]

5. Don't quote me, I was just quoting what Mitch Albom said the other day on tv.

I don't live in Detroit.
I have never lived in Detroit, but that's what Mitch said.

So, send all your hate mail to Mitch Albom.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Oh I know

I've heard it quoted the past week by a bunch of media.

No hate mail! Just taking up for my poor beleaguered City of Brotherly Love!!! The one that really did generate the Declaration of Independence & the Constitution vs (some "guesses" by tourists) Washington D.C. or Boston.



P.S. I have been to Detroit twice over the past 20 years and it is sad what has happened there. Pittsburgh was heading down the same route but they were able to pivot into other types of industry (hospital research, etc).