Noteworthy, overlooked and undervalued observations from the 2010 Southeast Regional Emmy nominations, announced Friday: The region’s “best” news anchor may work in Montgomery, Albany GA, Jackson Miss. or Asheville. Mark Bullock, the Montgomery anchor (and UGA grad) who won an Emmy last year for “On-Camera Talent – Anchor – News,” is nominated again this year. [...]
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12 Apr
Plus ca change…
Photo from Feeding the News Beast. The news business may evolve, but certain truths remain constant. A TV newscast must have stories that are timely, relevant and interesting. Important stories are a plus. When news is done well, it helps viewers. It doesn’t help them pay their bills, necessarily, or win grievances with their landlords. [...]
14 Mar
“Victim”? No.
Generally speaking, police officers expect fair scrutiny from the news media. They know there are bad apples in their ranks. If the media helps weed them out, good cops will cheer us on. But like the rest of us, police officers recoil from cheap shots, real or perceived. More than anything, they get defensive very [...]
8 Mar
LAF by the numbers
Recently this silly blog managed to grab the attention of its 400,000th set of eyeballs. At around the same time, it recorded its 3000th comment. That doesn’t necessarily speak to its popularity as much as it speaks to my inexplicable persistence in crunching out new material every week. One reason for the persistence: My stats [...]
18 Feb
Disinformation officer
See update below. It’s easy to underappreciate the Public Information Officer. When they do their jobs well, they make their bosses look good and draw no attention to themselves. But when a PIO screws up, it’s like when a surgeon screws up. Somebody gets hurt, and a lot of people notice. PIOs inherently have the [...]
20 Jan
RIP John Cater
John Cater had been a freelance reporter at WXIA, WGCL and WSB. He died Tuesday; an unknown illness hospitalized him at Thanksgiving. An infection developed. He never shook it. Talk about a life cut short. Cater was 32. I didn’t know Cater. He made it into this site twice, once during his coverage of a [...]
17 Jan
Mood swing
It had been two and a half years since I’d covered a killing. In this case, it was a shooting rampage, fatally injuring three people at Kennesaw’s Penske facility. “You’re on victims / family,” read the text message. It was inevitable. I’d worked five months at WXIA and had successfully avoided such stuff until Wednesday. [...]
29 Dec
10 Atlanta media moments, 2009
In no particular order… 10. WGCL’s drumbeat of “tough questions” over the Atlanta Water Department’s bizarro billing, and WGCL’s rise as an enterprising / investigative news organization. 9. The AJC’s contraction, redesign and announced relocation to Dunwoody. 8. Layoffs and pay cuts at WAGA and WXIA; furloughs at Gannett; and the combining of photog and [...]
22 Dec
Franklin gothic
The news media got it right when they described as “bizarre” Mayor Shirley Franklin’s last / don’t-presume-this-is-my-last news conference December 17. WGCL has posted the unedited news conference. Followers of Franklin, and those intrigued by the give-and-take between a skilled politician and the media will be amused to watch it. Most of the reporting on [...]
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 [...]
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