The best and worst thing about blogs is the “comments” section. This blog has had 3967 comments (not including a couple dozen I’ve deleted), and I’ve read every word of each of them. Blog commentary can be illuminating. Because the comment-makers can stay anonymous, they can also be horrifying, ugly, personal and hateful. The [...]
Archive for July, 2011
17 Jul
Moment of grief
WXIA reporter Jerry Carnes was invited by the family of a missing Gwinnett County woman to cover a ground search Saturday. Carnes and photographer Stephen Boissy had covered this sort of thing before; rarely are TV crews on hand when such a search actually yields the discovery of a body. It happened Saturday. Carnes writes [...]
8 Jul
Seeing red
The long-awaited report into test cheating at the Atlanta Public Schools system was, journalistically, the paperwork equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane. Everywhere you turned, there was a head-spinning story. Wednesday morning, Ellen Crooke recognized this prior to the start of the morning editorial meeting.. This commenced a most unusual half-week for reporters at WXIA, [...]
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