What follows is a resignation letter written by former WAGA reporter Tom Corvin. He left Atlanta, worked in another market, then resigned. He wrote this letter afterward but never sent it. It’s rather long; LAF will publish the second half in a day or so. He writes “this ‘letter of resignation’ is directed at no [...]
Archive for August, 2008
15 Aug
The old newsroom
In the early 1990s, WAGA produced an inside-the-newsroom piece that, to my knowledge, never aired on TV. Maybe it was screened for sponsors and other clientele. I stumbled onto it on Youtube. It’s an eye-opener for many reasons: Amanda Davis, very fetching in a Sheila E fauxhawk; Images of behind-the-scenes folks like Jim Heath, David [...]
13 Aug
Shedding
Cox Communications announced today that it’s selling newspapers in Colorado, Texas and North Carolina. Among them is the Austin American-Statesman, which has been around in some form since 1871. Cox is keeping the AJC, as well as its other larger newspapers in Dayton and West Palm Beach. It’s no surprise that the tumult within the [...]
13 Aug
Wood and China
The game of covering the Olympics for TV is rigged to the gills. If you work for an NBC station, you’re among the anointed, thanks to the gazillions paid by the network for the rights to the games. If you toil for, say, an ABC station– well, good luck. You’re on the outside. It ain’t [...]
12 Aug
Curious
WXIA is talking the best game in town. Its eye-popping news promos during the Olympics are gorgeous. Its tag line, “are you curious?” is a cool, refreshing contrast to the rat-a-tat breaking news! drumbeat employed in the promotion of WAGA and WSB. Its placement of these alt-promos during the Olympics is genius. The suits at [...]
11 Aug
AJC Lite
It costs more now to print and deliver a newspaper. That’s the reason the AJC cited Sunday for announcing that it would eliminate its Sunday @Issue opinions section, starting next week. @Issue was the liveliest section of the newspaper. Yesterday’s @Issue consisted of two broadsheets folded into eight pages. We’re trying to picture how its [...]
8 Aug
From the LAF mailbag
The writer is an old college buddy (Missouri ’79). He worked in TV news out of college. He’s now raking it in as a PR guy in Atlanta: I find it hard to believe you’re as charitable about the industry as you make out to be on the blog. I think the TV news industry [...]
7 Aug
Live mic!
You would think that a wiley media vet like Jesse Jackson would know better. While wearing a microphone, seated in a Fox News Channel studio, he famously mused about surgically turning the bullish Barack Obama into a steer. The fact that Jackson whispered it indicates that he did know better, but did it anyway. Sloppy, [...]
6 Aug
The Evan Thomason Show
At first blush, this was just weird as hell. We found it on WGCL’s website: A 14:39 piece it calls “the Evan Thomason Show.” It’s an absurdly elaborate spoof of a TV show featuring an absurdly cute tow-headed boy of that name. There’s no explanation offered. He appears to be nine. In the piece, Thomason [...]
3 Aug
“Peskajumba”
LAF is going on semi-hiatus for much of August. Our stand-in will be moderating the blog and adding some pre-packaged, timeless posts. But the fun continues. Turn on the news. Grab a bottle (not before noon, please). Do a shot whenever you hear: Makeshift memorial Totally destroyed Barely escaped with their lives only on (this [...]
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