Comments on: Less isn’t more at the AJC

By: bigear

bigear — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:15:35 +0000

It is sad that the AJC has lost its world view.

By: Ken Edelstein

Ken Edelstein — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:13:04 +0000

This interview on Fresh Loaf with Julia Wallace may be of interest.
http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/ajcs-julia-wallace-were-doing-the-things-we-need-to-be-doing/

By: broderickphoto

broderickphoto — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:34:28 +0000

I had always wondered why the AJC had a daily section for Gwinnett and not the other areas. It’s sad, but it’s also bewildering how they have so much of their paper online and then expect folks to want to pay for it in paper form. I do feel for all of the journalists who are affected by this..

By: Whippoorwill

Whippoorwill — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:33:19 +0000

Um… Hi yepps. I’m a native Georgian (been here all my 46 years) and proudly not an Atlantan. And you verified exactly what I’m saying. By having tunnel vision inside the city limits, the AJC has become irrelevant to the economic engine that surrounds it.

Probably would be smart for all Atlanta media to remember their entire audience does not live in the ATL.

By the way, no need to throw in the comment about Nashville and infer I’m a redneck. I don’t care about ANY entertainment “news,” no matter the genre. Expand your horizions-take a ride outside the city sometime.

By: Newsguy

Newsguy — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:29:00 +0000

Off-Topic: Doug, I am watching the MSNBC documentary on Derwin Brown’s assassination in 2000, and there you are! Do you get excited when you make cameos on tv?

By: statepark

statepark — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:39:20 +0000

They (the AJC) underreports serious crime and hardly ever will give suspect descriptions, i.e. race, height, build, hair, etc. This is in keeping with their social-engineering agenda.

I hope they choke on it.

By: Wrangler of Found Light

Wrangler of Found Light — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:11:38 +0000

In any case, I wish them all the best. I hate to see anyone lose their job.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:00:07 +0000

Like it or not, the AJC has cheapened its image and devalued its currency in recent years through slavish coverage of total-crap subjects (including hip hop stars, Elton John’s shopping trips, the dreadful Bynum-Weeks “divorce” story, to name a few). Check The Tennessean (Nashville’s daily) website or the Los Angeles Times and you simply won’t find the sort of routine coverage of those cities’ respective “celebrities.” They’ve also allowed their Op-Ed page to become toothless and snarky (but not in a fun way) and essentially turned the website over to do-it-yourself blogs filled with inches and inches of childish ravings from apparent miscreants. Left-leaning politics (would that it were so) is hardly the newspaper’s problem.

By: yepps

yepps — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:59:38 +0000

Um… Hi Whippoorwill. Welcome to Atlanta. You are obviously new to this city. We have a lot of African American folks who live here — not to mention a lot of open-minded folks and people who like hip-hop (or as you say, rap stars). Atlanta has become a headquarters for hip-hop music. So — a lot of people care. I’m sure the Nashville paper has country stars on the front page. You’d be ok with that I guess though, right? Hope you enjoy your new home here in our fair city!

By: Fence Sitter

Fence Sitter — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:09:03 +0000

Print media has yet to find an effective response to the internet. Of course, their task may end the same as the attempts by buggy whip manufacturers to find an effective response to the horse-less carriage.