{"id":19294,"date":"2017-04-06T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=19294"},"modified":"2017-04-03T13:48:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T17:48:38","slug":"mayor-defends-city-after-harsh-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/06\/mayor-defends-city-after-harsh-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor defends city after harsh video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2017\/03\/29\/mayor-defends-city-after-harsh-video\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The president of Ryerson University has apologized to Niagara Falls Mayor Jim Diodati for a student film depicting the city in a harsh light.<\/p>\n<p>The four-minute documentary <em>As Niagara<\/em> <em>Falls <\/em>is listed as a \u201cRyerson University Production\u201d on the Facebook page of its student filmmakers, known collectively as Mayday Pictures. The film claims to reveal \u201cwhat truly lies within the city\u201d by showing images of dilapidated houses and boarded-up buildings, while unnamed people comment on the wide divide between tourism and the rest of Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>Diodati responded to the video in a lengthy Facebook post Tuesday which has been shared more than 160 times. He was most puzzled by the film\u2019s connection to Ryerson, which the city has been in discussions with to possibly bring programming to downtown Niagara Falls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The president of Ryerson University has apologized to Niagara Falls Mayor Jim Diodati for a student film depicting the city in a harsh light. The four-minute documentary As Niagara Falls is listed as a \u201cRyerson University Production\u201d on the Facebook page of its student filmmakers, known collectively as Mayday Pictures&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,601],"tags":[12148,603,12149,3317,41,1139,12147,12150],"class_list":["post-19294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","tag-as-niagara-falls","tag-jim-diodati","tag-mayday-pictures","tag-mayor","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-ryerson-university","tag-ryerson-university-production"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19299,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294\/revisions\/19299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}