“We’re not interested.” The speaker was a plus-sized 40-ish woman wearing a baseball cap. She was with a group of her relatives, standing alongside a road that had been closed by fire personnel in rural Gilmer County. Three hours earlier, a house had a exploded, taking the life of one of their relatives. The woman [...]
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12 May
Sweeping performance
“Your mind is totally controlled. It has been stuffed into my mold. And you will do as you are told, until the rights to you are sold.” – Frank Zappa, “I’m the Slime” There are three reasons to watch local TV news. One: The content. Two: Your friend or family member is on TV. Three: [...]
2 Jun
Cameras in our heads
Fighting off exhaust fumes, one can just imagine the sardonic chuckling emanating from a WAGA live truck as Patty Pan’s photographer edited her piece last week from the scene of a police crackdown / media event that spanned metro Atlanta. It was Pan’s misfortune to cover a coordinated sweep of somewhat bad guys in the [...]
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 [...]
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