Richard Crabbe’s retirement was a bittersweet moment. Viewed selfishly, it irritated me because he is such a talented photographer and editor. Such folk can make my stories look great and make me look like I actually know what I’m doing. Viewed through the evolution of the TV news business, it makes more sense. Crabbe spent [...]
Archive for December, 2011
19 Dec
Confessional
Happy holidays. Here’s my gift to you. I’m going to admit that a competitor kicked my ass on a story. This will be a bit of heresy. Getting one’s ass kicked on a story isn’t something TV reporters enjoy discussing. Just the opposite actually. If somebody beats you on a story, you cling to the [...]
12 Dec
Names you remember
The disappearance and murder of seven year old Jorelys Rivera was undeniably awful. Most news folk are able to detach themselves emotionally from stories they cover, in part because they’ve frequently seen similar stories before. But thankfully, children are rarely murdered in metro Atlanta nowadays. That made this story rough. My career in Atlanta started [...]
5 Dec
A convenient target
Herman Cain ended his campaign for president Saturday. I attended the speech he delivered announcing his exit, and heard the crowd roar loudest when he denounced the news media. The news media is a convenient object of scorn. It’s easy to clobber reporters, whose jobs are to look for and tell interesting real-life stories. Frequently, [...]
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