Nobody wishes ill against any TV news folk. They’re just trying to do their jobs, trying to make a living at a time when their stations are teetering and their viewers are increasingly cynical about their motives and brainpower. Yet they manage to reduce their sympathy points when they produce stuff like this, first reported [...]
Archive for April, 2009
7 Apr
Eyeballing
WGCL produced a prime-time, magazine-style news program Monday that may have done what it intended: Snagged eyeballs, tuned in for the NCAA championship basketball game, to sample WGCL’s news. The hour-long “Eye on Atlanta” was slick, highly watchable and mostly packed with quality newsgathering and storytelling. * It led with a nine-minute investigation by Wendy [...]
4 Apr
Legacy
WXIA successfully walked an uneasy line Friday with a story about Earl Paulk, the megachurch Bishop / Lothario who died last weekend. Paulk careened from respectability to disgrace during the last fifteen years of his life. Much of that transition was painfully chronicled by WAGA and the AJC. WAGA had been particularly aggressive on the [...]
3 Apr
Winne Watch 4.3.09
“To paraphrase the song, ‘take a good look at his face.’” – WSB’s Mark Winne, opening a package about a serial robber caught on surveillance tape. Winne might just as well have written: “To paraphrase every other TV story you’ve ever seen using surveillance tape…” Cliche-inversion points: √√ (out of five)
1 Apr
Join the fun
Gluttons for punishment, folks with axes to grind and news junkies may try an extraordinary offer from WXIA: Become part of the station’s 3pm meeting, which is when the nightside crew brainstorms content for the 10pm newscast on WATL, and the 11pm on WXIA. The “punishment” part of the meeting is well-known to newsfolk. The [...]
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