WAGA produced a nice piece on Jim Axel, the terminally-ill retired anchor who now lives in Florida. In it, Axel talks about his life, his career, and the cancer that will probably kill him. It’s a long but moving story, especially for those of us who worked with and admired Axel.
Archive for June, 2009
10 Jun
Fireplug
Blogging “has not gotten there yet,” according the WGCL news director Steve Schwaid. Can’t really disagree. Some blogs are there– Huffington Post, Gawker, Politico. But locally, the only must-read (aside from the AJC, arguably) — and the one other bloggers go to most days — seems to be Peach Pundit. You may disagree, of course. [...]
9 Jun
News Directors at 11
Scroll to the bottom of the post for an update. Eleven snapshots from the Atlanta Press Club forum, featuring Atlanta’s four local TV news directors: TV news stinks. WXIA’s Ellen Crooke, commenting the state of TV news: “It doesn’t have to be a list of all the terrible things that happen every day. That’s why [...]
7 Jun
Camp Kudzu
There’s a reason there were fewer posts last week. Once I left the TV news business, I realized that I had an opportunity to be more productive with my free time. Last year, I debuted at a counselor at Camp Kudzu, a week-long camp for Georgia kids with diabetes. This past week, I did it [...]
6 Jun
Monica’s closet
This makes perfect sense. This is from a piece linked through WSB’s web site. The topic: The footwear of “phenomenal news personality” Monica Pearson. An excerpt: “Just Call her Monica Marcos- Monica says her husband laughingly calls her ‘Monica Marcos’ after the infamous Imelda Marcos, because she has so many shoes… Monica literally has shoes [...]
2 Jun
Cameras in our heads
Fighting off exhaust fumes, one can just imagine the sardonic chuckling emanating from a WAGA live truck as Patty Pan’s photographer edited her piece last week from the scene of a police crackdown / media event that spanned metro Atlanta. It was Pan’s misfortune to cover a coordinated sweep of somewhat bad guys in the [...]
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