A reporter at WXIA raised a question that I’d asked myself while driving home Monday night. “You went into — the lobby? Camera rolling? Did you — ?” Did I call the WXIA lawyer first? Actually, no. It went like this: We were at a DeKalb County day care center. The administrator had been indicted [...]
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28 Sep
Class action
Adam Murphy probably has many loyal friends. No doubt, they love his Restaurant Report Card stories on WGCL. They follow his regular appearances on the pop radio station known as Q100, wherein Murphy talks (we presume) about the failings of restaurants, as well as other exposés in the “Action Adam” portfolio. They probably love his [...]
30 Mar
The advocate
WGCL showed some enterprise and got a nice scoop earlier this month when Adam Murphy produced a story on metro Atlanta’s only toll road, Georgia 400. The story basically said this: Although tolls are producing many times the revenue needed to pay the road’s 18 year old construction bonds, the state intends to continue to [...]
3 Feb
Water, water everywhere
We’re overdue to deliver a slow but sincere one-man round of applause for Adam Murphy. The WGCL reporter has taken more than his share of abuse on this site for the still-unfortunate Restaurant Report Card. But maybe that franchise, and Murphy’s tough-guy role in it, has steeled him for the worthy work he’s done in [...]
2 Oct
Murphy’s law
The bad news is that WGCL hasn’t given up its weekly feature called “Restaurant Report Card.” The good news is that it’s somewhat less embarrassing than it used to be. Up until early September, reporter Adam Murphy typically started each RRC with a visit to a “good” restaurant. That portion of the report would feature [...]
30 Jul
Rocket science
TV reporters will be among the first to admit they aren’t rocket scientists. With their Journalism degrees and their slightly-above-average IQs, they succeed because they are just smart enough to look under rocks, grasp the obvious, write clean copy and produce ninety seconds of television. The good ones are quick studies, with a broad smattering [...]
23 Jun
Restaurant Report Card
It is the oddest, sloppiest and most schizoid TV news franchise in town. WGCL foists its “restaurant report card” on viewers once a week, and the results are almost always at once horrifying and laughable. The franchise promises the best and worst of Atlanta restaurants. We don’t know how Adam Murphy selects the best. Last [...]
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