On a fall morning in 2006, a reporter wanders over to the copier in the newsroom of an Atlanta TV station. He picks up his paper, and notices another paper laying on the copier. The stray paper lists the guests for that morning’s locally-produced 7 to 9am news/ public affairs / entertainment extravaganza. The reporter’s [...]
Archive for March, 2009
6 Mar
Jilted
When she was an Atlanta TV reporter / weekend anchor, everybody in town loved Kimberley Kennedy. She was bright and pleasant to be around. She had a nice smile. She “got it,” meaning that she made the best of a flawed profession. She had an easy rapport with strangers. She never played the glamor card, [...]
4 Mar
Winne watch 2.26.09
This one was the real deal, a “get” that probably drove reporters and managers in competing newsrooms a little nuts. Since the day after 92-year old Kathryn Johnston was shot to death during a botched drug raid in her Neal Street home, every reporter in town wanted to talk with the cops who were behind [...]
3 Mar
No white stuff
It would be an overstatement to call WSB’s coverage of Sunday’s snowfall “restrained.” The combination of snowfall and local TV news is typically combustible and comical. At 6pm, WSB pandered to its audience. That’s no surprise. But many of the usual excesses were absent. That surprised us. Score one for WSB. The basketball-shortened newscast bore [...]
2 Mar
The candy man
One can only imagine how many unintentional guffaws this piece generated on WSB’s 6pm news Thursday. One one hand, we’ve gotta give Tom Jones some credit. On this attempted child abduction story, Jones had zip. No mugshot. No victim. No video, except for real estate in a SE Atlanta neighborhood. No police interview. He had [...]
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