Some investigation. WSB goes to a state web site listing delinquent taxpayers. WSB cherry-picks a few names. It sends John Bachman to a few addresses. Bachman and a camera-rolling photog demand to know why the taxpayer is delinquent. The taxpayer stammers on camera. The Revenue commissioner clucks on-camera that these folks ought to know better. [...]
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16 Sep
We dislike Ike
Here’s a topic for your next journalism class: How do you handle the gasoline shortage story? The question is worth asking because the news media contributes to the mindset that causes panic, hence shortages. Is there any way to avoid that? The story has been out there since Friday, when Hurricane Ike hit Texas. Gas [...]
9 Jun
Dumpster Diving
John Bachman couldn’t have been happy about his assignment Thursday. Seems WSB’s news desk got a phone call from a construction worker at the West Paces Shopping Center in NW Atlanta. The construction worker told the desk about a dumpster on the property. Inside the dumpster were boxes of paper. The paper appeared to have [...]
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