WAGA appears to have solved its morning Road Warrior problem with perhaps the second-best solution at its disposal. Sidestepping our superior suggestion, WAGA has engaged the services of some of its utility-player talent, and deputized each of them for once-a-week yuks on Good Day Atlanta. This puts its bench of non-primary weather and sports talent [...]
Archive for July, 2009
29 Jul
Winne Watch 7.20.09
“GBI medical examiner Steve Atkinson says the victim had no top teeth at death, but nine on the bottom, two with fillings… Reporting live from the morgue, Mark Winne channel two action news.” – WSB’s Mark Winne, reporting on an unidentified murder victim whose skeletal remains were found in a shallow grave. During his live [...]
28 Jul
Reporter Threatened! Details at 5!
Viewers are saved the trouble of wasting time watching an actual news story, thanks to wsbtv.com and the “Good Parts” version. Once again, Action News has beaten the competition by pioneering a new frontier.
26 Jul
Burying the lede
That sound you hear in the distance is a blogger crying “uncle!” The blogger, having spent twenty-five months eking out mortgage payments as an entrepreneur, is taking a job with the Man. The job will return the blogger to a line of work for which he has a great deal of affection, in an industry [...]
23 Jul
Shallow dip
Show of hands: How many of you know somebody who served twenty years in the military and is collecting the pension s/he earned? Now, how many of those military folk are earning a paycheck at another job, while collecting the military pension? Question: Is that a bad thing, or a good thing? If you’re WGCL, [...]
21 Jul
Inside the tent…
See update below. Monday night, WGCL gave video cameras to a handful of Atlanta bloggers. For WGCL, the idea is to channel some of the buzz from the blogosphere to the station’s web site. The idea is evil genius. The bloggers knew better, but many couldn’t resist accepting the free loaner cameras. WGCL’s caveat was [...]
19 Jul
The WAGA way
Your name is Tacoma Newsome. You’re the new kid at WAGA. OK, you’re no kid. You’ve paid your TV reporter dues elsewhere. You’re polished. You’re ready for the big time. Careful what you wish for. WAGA is a big happy family. Nearly all of your co-workers are lovely and agreeable people. Many of them are [...]
15 Jul
OK, it’s a state — but really, what’s the deal with Hawaii?
If this is true, then Lord help the AJC. Plenty of good staffers took bailouts. A few good staffers stayed on. And then, if you believe Gawker, you have the reporter who stayed on, but can’t grasp why a guy born in the state of Hawaii might be eligible to be president. Even worse, you [...]
14 Jul
24 hours in Eden
Reflecting the body politic, local TV news lost interest in the homeless decades ago. Instead, the homeless are used as props. When an Atlanta station needs to do a story about freezing temperatures, it’ll send a warm body to a homeless shelter. When it covers stories about panhandlers, the storyline is about how they’re nuisances [...]
13 Jul
Journeys…
Certain Speculation By CB Hackworth newsmanatl [at] gmail [dot] com Remember “Journeys With Brenda Wood?” Ok, never mind. Not important. Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine — often described as a “leading” Republican candidate for governor — has launched his own show, “Journeys With John Oxendine.” I kid you not. It’s on his YouTube Channel. Good stuff? [...]
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