Gotta admit, we didn’t expect much from Dana Fowle’s I-Team piece on NeNe Leakes, one of the insufferable blowhards who starred on “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.” The AJC had reported six days earlier that NeNe and her family had been evicted from the pricey Sugarloaf Country Club home they occupied for the Bravo reality [...]
Archive for December, 2008
8 Dec
Flashes of subtlety
At WAGA last week, health reporter Beth Galvin produced an uncommonly moving piece about a project called “Flashes of Hope,” which photographs gravely ill children at children’s hospitals. The story showed ex-AJC photographer Jean Shifrin and other volunteers setting up a studio at Egleston and “letting kids be kids,” as Galvin put it. It was [...]
7 Dec
Mourning Mike Kavanagh
Longtime WSB radio reporter and “Money Matters” host Mike Kavanagh died at his suburban Atlanta home Saturday. He was 57. The AJC reports that Kavanagh was decorating his home for the holidays when he suffered a fatal heart attack. WSB radio’s web site has a nice tribute to Kavanagh, a 40 year veteran of radio [...]
4 Dec
Mise en scene
We’re the first to admit this blog isn’t timely. But Sarah Palin, who visited Georgia this week, will apparently never become passé. Palin’s post election exploits remain improbably au courant. One of our favorite local pols is proudly circulating his photo with Palin on Facebook, the image captured at a Gwinnett Co. rally Monday. And [...]
2 Dec
Snow squall
You become a journalist because you want to be where the action is. You become a TV reporter because it pays decent and most folks depend on TV for news. You go to a prestigious college for an undergrad degree, then an even more prestigious college for a Masters in Journalism. You slog through small [...]
1 Dec
We only tell four stories
By Tom Tucker I didn’t go into TV because I love TV. In fact, I don’t like the industry very much at all, and for a lot of reasons. But through a series of peculiar circumstances, I find myself working at an Atlanta TV station, though not as a member of the news staff. That [...]
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