Maybe that guy’s a blogger now, sharing your optimism. I toast your optimism. But not your tan. Tanning ain’t healthy, right? I read it in the newspaper once.

But sometimes you don’t know when to just shut-up and let your point make itself. When you trot-out that same “woe is me” verbiage about “what are we going to do without big newspapers to, like, find out stuff for us itty bitty little dumb people way down here?” you sound like just another tired, old, grizzled, former, journo-type who’s had the sheer life and inspiration drained-out of him by the crush of bureaucracy he had to endure for a tired, long career at, say, some ‘ole Cox MSM plantation.

Dude, you think old, you ARE old. Think otherwise, and who knows what might unfold? Or “be exposed?” Much more than some dopey creative resume writing that’s fer sure.

Let’s review, yet again, some of the ways the info world is flourishing quite well without benefit of ink-ridden MSM newspaper plantations: Case #1 – City of Dunwoody. Happened because of indie media (Dunwoody Crier) and a blog called Dunwoody North.

U.S. Justice Dept. and AG Gonzales: laid low and laid-off because of being dogged by a blogger, long before MSM picked back up the issues there.

Those ridiculous Julia Wallace memos-from-hell that circulate every single time she hits the “Send” button? Where do we all read ‘em? On a blog. (Romenesko)

I could go on and on, but I get tired of wailing on that poor old dead mule. Bless his heart. Got us all through some tough times no doubt.

Getting on to the point here… if info about a falsified resume is going to get out, believe you me, it’ll get out now. In numerous and creative way. (Surely you’ve had a few juicy morsels flow in through your own Tip Jar here, right? Right!)

We simply no longer need a big, honkin’ newspaper plantation-protected journalist to tell us which way the wind blows. And they know it over at the AJC better’n anyone. (Also, I wouldn’t mess with ‘em too much about right now. They’re scared and frightened and mean as snakes. For good reasons.)

When they all finally stop cowering under Granny Annie Cox’s full-bennies-for-life-and-a-pony-too skirts like they were guaranteed a classy journalist gig forever and ever Amen, and finally get around to pooling resources and talent on their own, maybe starting some blogs and media sites and indie reporting and networking and shucking and jiving all on their own, and commence to creating some hot new interesting, techno-creative media and investigative pursuits all by themselves, THEN you can go and f with ‘em all you want.

And hon, if we can do it, anyone can. ‘Nuff said. Gotta go resume tanning!

http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/question_of_trust_at_the_atlanta_journal/Content?oid=2339

Whether you agree or not agree with the politics of the paper’s editorial pages, there is a need for watchdog journalism, to ensure people in powerful positions aren’t taking advantage of taxpayer money. Thank you, Doug, for saying very much the same.

As much as I’m a print person and I think the demise of the AJC and the American newspaper sucks (though it’ll probably be for the best in the end), I’m sure TV could have done this as well (I’m thinking WSB or WAGA, specifically — or anyone with an understanding of the Open Records Act and the willingness to keep on it).