The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined WSB $5000 for safety violations surrounding its live truck accident in November. The accident took place when a WSB crew exited the parking lot of the Fulton County jail with its microwave mast raised. The mast came into contact with some 115,000 volt transmission lines above Rice [...]
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18 Nov
Mast v. power lines
A WSB TV crew failed to lower its 40-foot mast following a noon live shot at the Fulton County jail today. WGCL reports the operator drove the truck, mast extended, into some power lines. That triggered an explosion which damaged the truck and sent a surge of electricity into the ground below, damaging a water [...]
2 Mar
The candy man
One can only imagine how many unintentional guffaws this piece generated on WSB’s 6pm news Thursday. One one hand, we’ve gotta give Tom Jones some credit. On this attempted child abduction story, Jones had zip. No mugshot. No victim. No video, except for real estate in a SE Atlanta neighborhood. No police interview. He had [...]
17 Jun
Immigrant Song
Fifteen to twenty people are abducted, tied up, robbed and abandoned in a vacant house. The robbers gain control of the victims by claiming to be federal agents. Sounds like news, no? If the victims are Hispanic, the answer is “yes, but….” No denying that it’s news. The question is whether it’ll get on TV [...]
20 May
Overstepping
WSB’s lead story Monday at 6 was terrific. Tom Jones interviewed a broke college student who went to municipal court to pay a fine for an HOV violation. When the court added some fees to the $75 fine, the woman said she couldn’t pay it in full. So the municipal court judge threw her in [...]
29 Apr
Cliche Watch
Three of ‘em turned up in Monday’s 6pm piece produced by WSB’s Tom Jones. Jones reported that Clayton Co. “corrective superintendent” John Thompson is “fired up” about his new job; that Thompson “hit the ground running”; and proclaimed that it’s time for the community to “stop pointing the finger.” For good measure, WAGA’s Chris Shaw [...]
1 Apr
Don’t tase me, bro
“Classic Winne” may be a fit description for the live shot Mark Winne performed to lead WSB’s 6pm news Monday. He stood in front of DeKalb’s police headquarters, holding a live taser pistol. We know the pistol was live because we saw Winne pulling the trigger, and saw the sparks emanating from it. Thankfully, Winne [...]
27 Mar
No Comparison
LAF is not necessarily a timely blog. By mistake, we just dialed up and watched WAGA’s version of the Wednesday 6pm show. That’s the show we found so underwhelming on WSB. What a difference, at least on this particular day. While WSB was lamely leading with the Tom Jones men’s-room “exclusive,” WAGA’s Morse Diggs broke [...]
27 Mar
Ugly. Shameful.
WSB led its 6 o’clock news Wednesday with a story that would have been laughable, were it not so destructive and shameful. Tom Jones was live at the Clayton Co. Courthouse with “exclusive” coverage of a trial of a former FBI agent. He was charged with a misdemeanor, accused of making googly-eyes at men in [...]
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