Note For Those Seeking AJC Related Dirt

UPDATE FOR THOSE HITTING THIS BLOG WHILE LOOKING FOR DIRT ABOUT SOME JULIA “THE UNDERTAKER” WALLACE-RELATED MEMO:  THIS AJC-IS-TANKING STUFF IS OLD NEWS. I’M NO LONGER WASTING ONE MORE DIGIT OF TEXT (AND NEVER A FRAME OF VIDEO)  WRITING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT LOSES ONE MILLION DOLLARS A WEEK.
YOU WERE LED OFF A CLIFF BY INSANELY [...]

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Would You Buy A “Media Solution” From The AJC?

From the institution that’s downsized itself into oblivion… how about a nice streaming bowl of “media solutions!” All the while the AJC, (aka “Panda Press”) has managed to set absolutely NO standard for online anything, other than to issue bleating memoranda via Julia Wallace (who doesn’t even blog last time I checked) that end-up all [...]

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Quote du Jour. Possibly of Year.

Yeah, we are robbing Peter to pay Paul, he said. But that’s OK because Paul is dead.
The above bon motes are from Elliot Eisenberg, an economist with the National Association of Home Builders. Eisenberg then went on to say, according to the AJC, ‘Atlanta should continue to build even though demand isn’t there.’
Full story is [...]

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Cox Media Plantation Assaults Audience With Garbage

Below is the news alert found my InBox today from the increasingly hideous Cox Media Plantation product, AJC.com:
AM News: Man assaults girlfriend with cheeseburger
It lives on their homepage this morning too. See for yourself, but you’ll have to get there on your own devices. Out of principle, imaging that I have some that is, [...]

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Atlanta Gas Availability Info – Use Twitter

Best place for real-time gas availability updates in the metro Atlanta area remains Twitter. You can subscribe to the #atlgas hash tag for your news reader, and keep a real-time availability update right on your desktop or cell. Couldn’t be easier.
Too bad ATL MSM are too arrogantly ignorant about social media and crowd sourcing apps [...]

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Lack of Social Media Awareness and Tools Has Local TV News Failing Consumers In A Crisis

A complete failure to keep up with technological advances and the needs of the citizenry via social media tools and citizen journalism applications is making Atlanta TV stations look like media dino imbeciles… at a time when they could be serving the community in a real-time way.
Bless their heart, WXIA is trying to let people [...]

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Loyalty Leaking Out Of AJC As Well As Staff

UPDATE FOR THOSE HITTING THIS (OLD) POST NOW… IN APRIL OF 2009 WHILE LOOKING FOR DIRT ABOUT SOME JULIA “THE UNDERTAKER” WALLACE MEMO: THIS AJC-IS-TANKING STUFF IS OLD NEWS. I’M NOT WASTING ONE MORE DIGIT OF TEXT (AND NEVER VID!)  WRITING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT LOSES ONE MILLION DOLLARS A WEEK. YOU WERE LED OFF A [...]

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When Even A Bad Cell Phone Snap Would Do

The AJC online is so pitifully multimedia-deficient that it failed to run even a (very good) reporter’s grainy cell phone photo with this story about a Georgia bird:
Anhingas normally are found on the coast and in the coastal-plain region of Georgia. However, they are showing up now in the Piedmont, including suburban Atlanta. Naturalists at [...]

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BS-1 and BS-2

With a sweeping staff cut, the AJC has iced-out daily print news coverage of life in Gwinnett County. Seems nothing’s terribly interesting out there. And whatever there is, it’s certainly not impacting the bottom line. Given last night’s MARTA referendum, maybe Gwinnettians should just build a moat and a drawbridge now. And oh yeah, get [...]

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Welcome To The Blogosphere Day For AJC Staff

I hear it’s cut day at the AJC today, Wednesday. Many heads on the block, and not just in editorial. Hmmmm. We shall see. Romenesko will probably get any news first. But anyone is free to leave comments here, or email me with info. Post anonymously if you feel like you need to. Let it [...]

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Bless This Transition

Why is it so easy to instantly forget the humanity that exists within an entire industry? Newspapers in this case. Hell, in cyberspace it’s easy to forget just about anything we used to be tactilely associated with.
Standing within six feet of three Pulitzer Prize winners in Journalism, at a party (I crashed) to honor Hank [...]

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Another One Flees Cox Media Plantation!

Lost a Pulitizer winner this time too. Even the lure of new used-car money can’t hold ‘em down on the plantation. From Romenesko:
Memo from Atlanta Journal-Constitution managing editor/news Hank Klibanoff
To: The AJC staff
From: Hank
Date: June 24, 2008
I don’t have an anecdotal lede, a way to foreshadow a suspenseful ending, or some clever device to hook [...]

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Possibly Worst “News” Copy Ever Penned

Fire the editor! Fire the publisher! Fire somebody! Hell, call a fucking exorcist over to Marietta Street at this point. There really should be an award given to this story for the hideous, patronizing writing “style.” From the AJC – apparently now hiring only the most ridiculous writers on the planet. 
Whatcha wanna bet the Used Car Guy they just [...]

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AJC Wets Its Pants Over Boring Corporate Video

Having produced years of really boring corporate videos myself, all underscored with a similar, sleep-inducing canned looped score, I fail to see anything remotely compelling about this one, other than nice cheekbones maybe. Yet it’s the most-clicked story on AJC.com today, making a compelling case for just how culture & arts-deprived the Georgia plebe public tragically must [...]

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Alert The Media! AJC Discovers YouTube!

Dont’ they just crack you the fuck up over there on Marietta?!

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AJC Shifting Folk Around As LA Times Tries e-Billboards

I love the e-billboards concept to promote “news product.” As if we weren’t all about to wreck our cars at any moment while texting and drinking coffee and driving…
From the San Antonio Business Journal:
The Los Angeles Times will use the electronic billboards to display exclusive news content from its print and online editions and special editorial features [...]

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Where Were You While We Were Getting High?

This is just plain meanness, and things are really pathetic on Marietta Street when they make their Pulitzer Prize winners face their ”audience” via the crude muck that is the blogosphere. Blogging is simply not for everyone. Anyone who’s spent even an hour blogging could tell you that.
But bureaucrats don’t actually DO things like submerge themselves in cyberspace for [...]

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Detain These MSM Reporters!!!

Cyber Alert! Cyber Alert! APB. Call HLS. Call GBI.  Call some kinda Ministry of Information. And get me Suzanna Capelouto of GPB on the phone… NOW.
Two balding, middle-aged reporters reported to be violating ethical principles of one person at a state public news outlet. Rogue reporters and their minds are said to be exclusive property of Anne Cox Chambers, [...]

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Jeff Foxworth Will Make You Cry

Of course we’re used to Foxworthy making us laugh our butts off. In the analog days of yore, when I’d get bored on my constant roadtripping back and forth between South Carolina and Atlanta, I’d pull over to any ‘ole gas station along I-20 and pop-in for yet another Jeff Foxworthy cassette. Then I’d just [...]

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AJC Gasps For Audience

While reading through the exhaustive 8K+ word biopic on AJC’s publisher Julia Wallace in Atlanta Magazine, I was struck by the use of the word “reader” throughout the lengthy piece. As in, “Readers are abandoning newspapers in droves. Where the bottom is, nobody knows.”
Let’s look at the definition of that word, READER:
1. One that reads.
2. One who publicly [...]

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