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 [...]
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7 Jan
Flurries of truth
It’s a shame this site no longer abuses local TV. Otherwise, I’d name the parties below. Wednesday, Twitter delivered some material from local TV stations about this afternoon’s upcoming “weather event.” This tweet came from a local TV guy at 3pm: “I like to get wx report straight from source. @[weatherguy] told me while i [...]
5 Sep
Immunity
Jerry Carnes is a clever, talented and mostly healthy TV reporter. He’s one of the best storytellers in town. But this isn’t about Carnes’s strengths as a journalist. This is about how the finger of fate can point, then keep pointing. First, Carnes beat prostate cancer. He’s been cancer free for quite some time. Then, [...]
14 May
Bigmouth strikes again
Wendy Saltzman has been a busy woman. Like most reporters in understaffed shops, she’s probably overworked. And she solely bears the on-air burden of giving WGCL badly needed credibility in classic, research-based investigative reporting (as distinguished from, say, consumer reporting or bare-hands-on-food-in-restaurants exposés). Sometime over the winter, it appears Saltzman began work on a story [...]
7 Sep
Future cancer survivors
On WXIA’s news Friday, Ted Hall told viewers that reporter Jerry Carnes is now fighting prostate cancer. Carnes has been with WXIA since 1988. He’s a swell guy and one of Atlanta’s best TV storytellers. He’s still on the job. Hall’s announcement followed a moving piece Carnes produced Friday night about a fallen US soldier, [...]
15 Jul
Re-education camp
Earlier this month, WXIA sent one of its most experienced reporters to backpack journalism school and scheduled classes for another. The reporters, Paul Crawley and Jon Shirek, began work in TV news during the film era. Crawley (left) joined WXIA in 1978, Shirek in 1980. “Backpack journalism” is a 21st century term for a brutal [...]
29 Mar
WXIA’s backpack journalists
About a year ago, WXIA launched a somewhat revolutionary concept in the Atlanta market. It began using what it calls “backpack journalists,” reporters who tote and shoot their own cameras, as well as write and produce their own stories. It’s revolutionary, all right. Kinda like 1979 Iranian revolution. It’s disturbing, destabilizing, and nobody wins except [...]
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