I’ve killed my share of pixels writing about lousy public information officers (PIOs), and I remain astonished at their pervasiveness in government. By contrast, I’m very appreciative of those who do their job well. At the Atlanta Police Department, the communications division was frequently treated as an afterthought. Under some regimes, the communications folk were [...]
Archive for January, 2011
23 Jan
Mouth of the South
My ill-advised and poorly-executed quest for world domination got a questionable boost last week when WXIA aired the first Suspicious Package segment on Sunday’s 9am news. It’s the video above. Because of its double (or more) entendre qualities, Suspicious Package is the name I sometimes wish I’d used for this site instead of Live Apartment [...]
17 Jan
Missed that one
Many news professionals like to talk about the big stories they’ve covered. I’m among them. But today I’m going to cover some of the big stories I missed. We’ll begin with Monday’s snow and ice “weather event.” I’d scheduled a vacation day Monday. My colleagues covered it while I stayed home, secure in the knowledge [...]
10 Jan
Foot forward
The “standup” is a bit of a misnomer. Those of us who make appearances in th’ TV news stand in front of cameras, and intone. It’s true. But the standup isn’t just about standing there and talking out loud to a camera lens. Stand in a relaxed, flatfooted stance, and the material itself becomes flatfooted. [...]
7 Jan
LAF on TV
Update: It appears they killed my segment Sunday due to — weather, maybe? Despite her better judgment, the bosslady has decided to allow a variation of this blog to appear in a WXIA newscast. Depending on my ability to generate content, the whims of management, the numbers, the research etc., it could be a regular [...]
3 Jan
Eddie and Lenny’s
I’d patronized the dive bar / rock club known as Lenny’s perhaps a half dozen times in my life, mostly at its old Memorial Drive location. Its word-of-mouth was more influential than my personal experience, having heard “concert calendar” mentions on WRAS and seeing its lineups listed in Creative Loafing and Stomp and Stammer. After [...]
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