WGCL’s ongoing effort to root out waste in Atlanta’s city government is admirable. Its most recent installment hits the target but misses the bulls-eye. And that’s a vast improvement over its last effort, which completely missed and was a bit of an embarrassment. This time, investigative reporter Wendy Saltzman crunched some payroll numbers and found [...]
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10 Oct
Too little work / pt 2
WGCL has produced a third piece in its crudely titled “city workers wasting time” series. In so doing, one of the central premises of the original piece quietly disappeared, and the series became more unconvincing than ever. Investigative reporter Wendy Saltzman originally reported that Atlanta sanitation workers racked up overtime by sitting around until the [...]
5 Oct
Too little work
Today’s question is this: Whose work is more slipshod — the Atlanta sanitation department, or the TV station investigating the department’s allegedly slipshod work habits? The “lazy government employees” story is a local TV perennial. WGCL’s latest version of this bit of investigative schtick is a classic example of why viewers should watch these stories [...]
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