This is not a fashion blog. Therefore, we are not going to question the purple poofy-sleeved prom-style dress Dagmar Midcap wore on WGCL Thursday night / Friday morning.
Archive for March, 2008
21 Mar
I was this guy, once
This is my shout-out to an Atlanta-based blog called Mostly Media, which mentioned Live Apt Fire this week. Edited by Spacey G, she does media stuff on her blog too– more “new media” eg. blogging, social networking and such– and screwball news vignettes such as this: As long as I’m doing blog shout-outs: Thanks also [...]
21 Mar
Comparing coverage
All four Atlanta TV stations covered an official bus tour of the city’s tornado damaged areas. They focused on Vine City, whose residents are less protected by insurance. What we saw: Richard Elliott on WSB provided a very by-the-numbers look at the tour, with nothing especially memorable. He identified tourgoer Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat [...]
20 Mar
Better late than never
Hurrah for the AJC, which finally discovered the spectacular Shane Durrance photo of the Atlanta tornado. The TV stations have had it since the weekend. The AJC finally put it on their front page today. It’s the definitive photo of this event; it’s nice that the paper of record has gotten ’round to publishing it.
20 Mar
Morning presence
I’m not a fan of morning TV, which I stopped watching when Brokaw switched from “Today” to the Nightly News following the retirement of John Chancellor. The local morning staple, Good Day Atlanta on WAGA, is painful– though legions of viewers clearly love it. The Road Warrior segments are an opportunity for the show to [...]
19 Mar
Delivery failure
Few TV newscasts are completely free of glitches. Some viewers may not have even noticed the one that struck WSB’s 11pm news Tuesday. But Mrs. Aptfire, who watched the ABC show Dancing with the Stars, absolutely noticed. During the program, which leads into WSB’s 11pm news, the station repeatedly promoted a story about a carriage-ride [...]
18 Mar
More tornado snapshots
With this post, we stop ignoring our friends at WGCL, CBS 46 and their coverage of the Atlanta tornado. Rebekka Schramm’s coverage of Vine City Monday was solid, dovetailing nicely into the charitable efforts of the Salvation Army in that impoverished area. She had the nat sound of the day: A resident, viewing his home [...]
17 Mar
tornado scorecard, partial
When big news breaks over a weekend– as was the case with the Atlanta tornado– Sunday’s late news should be a good time for viewers to see the coverage at its best. Viewership is high, and the chaos of Friday night and Saturday has settled somewhat. Here’s what a look-see of local TV reveals: WAGA’s [...]
15 Mar
Tornado drinking game
(update: two reported dead in Polk County) Since nobody got killed in Atlanta’s tornado (last I heard), we can have some fun with the coverage on a Saturday night. Grab hold of the remote, flip amongst the four local channels. When you hear a TV reporter or anchor say “war zone,” “epicenter,” “path of destruction” [...]
15 Mar
Downtown tornado
TV stations love to overreact to weather, treating every fallen tree limb as if it’s armageddon. Last night, they got it right. Some got it more right than others. Through 8am, it appeared WSB’s coverage was tops. 2 had interior footage of the CNN Center and Dome (as did WXIA). Jim Strickland’s overnight package [...]
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