There he goes again. Justin Farmer is blowing the whistle on wasteful government spending. Just like last time, the story is designed to make the viewer angry at the stupidity of government. When Farmer clobbered UGA for sending some of its professors overseas for “academic enrichment,” UGA challenged Farmer’s methodology. This time, his methodology is [...]
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24 Mar
Expense report
WSB has a strong and peculiar history of attacking the spending of colleges. It plays into the hands of demagogue politicians who find seemingly-absurd instances of government-funded scientific research (“volcano monitoring,” say), then decry the waste of money. Justin Farmer tapped into that journalistic / audience-pandering lineage with a report on March 5. Farmer documented [...]
4 Sep
The second coming
WSB’s buildup of its newest reporter / anchor Justin Farmer is truly harrowing. The station announced his hiring in January— months before his contract with a Dallas station had expired in August. He’s already made the AJC’s Peach Buzz a couple of times, once for his coverage of Skip Caray’s funeral. Now, the new kid [...]
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