After working in news for, like, fifty years, I finally have a coworker who shares my appreciation for Richard Nixon. His name is Jeff Hullinger. Given the fact that I shared a workplace with Hullinger for some sixteen years in a previous life, you’d think I’d have already known this. And yes, when Hullinger covered [...]
Archive for July, 2010
26 Jul
Pink lady
Welcome to the most glam-rock piece of real estate in the WXIA newsroom, and perhaps in all of TV news. The desk of Karyn Greer, morning anchor, is a ten square foot workspace that transforms the mundane fixtures of the cubicle desktop into stuff inexplicably yet cheerily pink and shiny. Greer possesses the only pink [...]
21 Jul
Third person
By Jeff Hullinger Question: What does speaking in third person mean? Answer: Talking about one’s self as though you were talking about someone else. Two GOP candidates for Governor habitually spoke in third person. “…the voters want John Oxendine,” says John Oxendine. The candidate did that Sunday during the debate on Georgia Public Television and [...]
19 Jul
The gay avenger
I’m not the one who started talking about the gays. The Republican candidates for Governor of Georgia did. I just asked them whether they really knew what they were talking about. It started with Nathan Deal playing “gotcha” with Karen Handel by highlighting her willingness to play footsie with the Log Cabin Republicans in 2003. [...]
12 Jul
“My house is alive and breathing…”
Here’s a helpful tip for fans of local TV news: Want to get the attention of a human being working in a newsroom? Call at 3am. TV stations in major markets staff their newsrooms overnight whenever they’ve scheduled an early morning newscast. At WXIA, that’s every night. When you call a newsroom at 3am, the [...]
8 Jul
Pants on fire
Hello. I’m a liar. Pleased to meet you. I know that I’m a liar for this reason: Twice in one week, operatives for two Georgia politicians have informed me of it. “YOU LIED TO ME!” one of them screamed (in ALL CAPS) in a voice mail, one of two screaming voice mails he left on [...]
2 Jul
Charge dismissed
It took a week or three, but WAGA has released a portion of the video showing the encounter that got reporter George Franco arrested in Pensacola June 7. In so doing, WAGA reports that the misdemeanor battery charge against Franco was dismissed. From WAGA’s web site: “Franco was working on a story about the use [...]
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