When I saw it on my Facebook feed late Monday afternoon, my heart may have skipped a beat. It was a link to a website touting Freaknic 2010, scheduled for mid-April in Atlanta. The site was multi-layered, with numerous “fan” pages and links. It promoted specific events in Washington Park, and others “TBA.” It claimed [...]
Archive for February, 2010
22 Feb
Mayer and me
Decatur Metro takes some liberties with this post here. It started with this 1998 story. Shot and edited by Mike Daly (using old school A/B roll dissolves), the piece was about Open Mic Night at Eddie’s attic. It was a lifestyle-type feature, the sort in which I trafficked in the late 90s as a feature-reporting [...]
18 Feb
Disinformation officer
See update below. It’s easy to underappreciate the Public Information Officer. When they do their jobs well, they make their bosses look good and draw no attention to themselves. But when a PIO screws up, it’s like when a surgeon screws up. Somebody gets hurt, and a lot of people notice. PIOs inherently have the [...]
15 Feb
We ask the weird questions
The Daily Show isn’t news. But its successful merger of news and humor gives the TV news biz a potential tool to stop the bleeding, audience-wise. The problem is, humor is tricky business. Most of us aren’t nearly as funny as we’d like to think we are. I’d be the first to admit I’m a [...]
11 Feb
Winne Watch 2.11.10
“So the key is: Who are the three men in the small, dark compact car?” – WSB’s Mark Winne, closing a live shot about the unsolved killing of a gay man. Police are investigating it as a possible hate crime. Winne’s intro had an almost manic demonstrative quality. The black trenchcoat was classic gumshoe wear. [...]
10 Feb
UGA TV
TV news students at UGA’s Grady College of Journalism have a cool new tool on which to regularly ply their nascent trade: An actual TV station. The University of Georgia purchased Toccoa-based WNEG-TV months ago. In November, it began doing its newscasts from a new studio at Grady. Monday, it added an all-student, Athens-oriented newscast [...]
7 Feb
Three seconds of Springer
In 1998, Jerry Springer’s confrontational, chair-throwing TV talk show was a sensation. It aired on WAGA at 4pm, opposite Oprah. For a ratings period or two, it actually had a larger Atlanta audience than Oprah. Like it or not, it was an effective lead-in to WAGA’s 5pm news. But Springer’s show was lowbrow and controversial. [...]
6 Feb
Jim Axel rites
A memorial service for Jim Axel will be held Sunday February 14 at 3pm. The location is Living Grace Lutheran Church, 1812 Cooledge Rd., Tucker 30084. Axel, who worked at WAGA for 34 years, died in November after a battle with cancer. WAGA’s obit is here. Axel was known for many things — chiefly, as [...]
3 Feb
News archivist
Many of us remember when the Fox News Channel launched in the mid 1990s, an upstart cable news competitor to the vaunted CNN. Turns out, the upstart had deeper news roots than CNN, despite CNN’s fifteen-year head start on cable. Fox Movietone was a newsreel producer, back when TV didn’t exist but motion picture houses [...]
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