Timing is everything, the cliche goes. This cliche has a measure of truth, at least regarding the story of DeKalb police chief Terrell Bolton. Unlikely to survive his current contretemps with his new boss, DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis, Bolton may be inclined to blame WAGA’s Dale Russell for digging up information leading to his demise. [...]
Archive for the ‘massee’ Category
18 Sep
Praising with faint damnation
There were a couple of good things about Joanna Massee’s lead story on WGCL Tuesday at 11. The story, billed as a “CBS-46 investigation,” was a worthwhile bit of enterprise: Check the records of complaints against Atlanta’s 911 center, and see if the center has badly botched any calls. It’s newsworthy in light of the [...]
21 Mar
Comparing coverage
All four Atlanta TV stations covered an official bus tour of the city’s tornado damaged areas. They focused on Vine City, whose residents are less protected by insurance. What we saw: Richard Elliott on WSB provided a very by-the-numbers look at the tour, with nothing especially memorable. He identified tourgoer Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat [...]
14 Mar
Evergreen Investigation
When the anchor guy started off with “only on CBS 46 news,” the viewer might have expected to see something he’d never seen before. But what followed was a story as old as the hills– a story WAGA’s I-team has revisited numerous times over a ten or fifteen year period. It’s not illegal to sell [...]
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