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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The conservative blogger, who lives in suburban Atlanta, gives a thumbs down to the ATL (aka "the Black Mecca") : "The city of Atlanta is broke, and not even the prospect of a new mayor can change that fact. Due to mismanagement of funds and widespread fraud perpetrated by the last two mayoral administrations, there is no money left in the city budget for the most basic city improvements...
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Wendy Williams. The Queen of All Media (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
As we just told you earlier today, AJ Jewell's parents met with the chief of police in Atlanta. The meeting was a success. The family requested AJ's body be exhumed for a second autopsy and they will get their wish.Fulton District Attorney Paul Howard told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper he agreed to the exhumation because of two reasons."First, the Jewells are dissatisfied with the...
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
If a prominent white man said all white men in Congress should vote for or against a pending piece of legislation, what do you think the media firestorm would be like? As you ponder, consider that Jesse Jackson on Wednesday told a reception held by the Congressional Black Caucus, “ You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man .” Although the comment was first reported...
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Celeb Gossip (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Alicia Lannette Ash is a motivational coach and author of the self-improvement book, “I Dropped 142 lbs in a Year and Lost 220 lbs in a Day.” A Columbus, Georgia native, Ash has been a featured guest on numerous television and radio shows, and penned expositions in the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper, Columbus Times newspaper [...]
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Cheapflights.com Flight News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Delta Air Lines is one step closer to a cashless cabin, according to The Atlanta-Journal Constitution. The newspaper is reporting that Delta will only accept credit cards for on-board food and alcoholic drink purchases starting Dec. 1 on all domestic...
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Techdirt (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Earlier this year, we had a discussion on the changing nature of sports beat reporting in the internet era, and one of the points we made is that there really is an awful lot of overlap and duplication in effort in some cases (such as the NY media). And yet, as pointed out by Jay Rosen old school baseball reporter Murray Chass is complaining that about half of the newspapers that have baseball beat...
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Talking Biz News (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Matt Kempner is one of several dozen business editors at daily newspapers across the country struggling to maintain proper coverage of the local business world with a smaller staff and a smaller news hole than in previous years. Kempner became the business editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution six months ago after a short [...]
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CAFFEINATED POLITICS (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is but the latest newspaper that has decided not to endorse political candidates for elective office. Some will see this a good thing, after all, I can hear the words tumble out of many mouths, why should ‘they’ be telling readers how to vote. In fact, newspapers that endorse do not ‘tell’ [...]
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blogHOUSTON (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
THE CHRON CAUCASIAN THINK TANK today "co-endorsed" Gene Locke and Annise Parker for mayor. That's about as lame and useless as usual. Here's a thought: Maybe the newspaper should follow the lead of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and drop endorse...
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Values Voter News (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Related: Further evidence that legalized abortion disadvantages women against men as Tennessee man charged with murdering woman and unborn child over abortion. LifeNews.com reports on how legalized abortion empowers men over women Teen admits to tainting girlfriend's drink with drug used to abort pregnancies in cows ACLU to defend man who killed pregnant girlfriend and unborn child after shooting into...
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Techdirt (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Romenesko recently pointed us to the news that the Atlanta Journal Constitution has decided to do away with political endorsements , and instead, focus on trying to provide more information on what candidates positions really are on various issues. This makes a lot of sense. I'd always wondered how much impact (if any) newspaper endorsements had these days. It may have been significant in the past,...
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Reflections of a Newsosaur (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
The first job of a newspaper is to set the agenda for the community. That most inspiring thought, from Howard M. Ziff, one of my most inspiring journalism professors at the University of Illinois, came to mind when I read that the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has decided to stop endorsing candidates for public office. I can’t think of a more vital part of the agenda-setting role for a
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The Amateur Gourmet (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
[Last week, Christopher Kimball of Cook's Illustrated wrote a rather nasty Op-Ed in the NYT, linking the closing of Gourmet Magazine to the proliferation of food blogs. Obviously, this hit a nerve with me, so I penned my own Op-Ed in response. I share it with you below, but recommend you read his first (click here), so you get the context.] A few years ago, as my relatively new food blog began to gain...
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Sister Toldjah (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
(H/T – Jason Pye) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution announced in today’s editions that, beginning with the November 2009 elections, they will no longer offer explicit endorsements of candidates on their editorial pages: After listening carefully to readers and thinking deeply about the modern role of a newspaper in elections, the AJC Editorial Board is taking a new approach [...]
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JasonPye.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will no longer endorse candidates for public office:After listening carefully to readers and thinking deeply about the modern role of a newspaper in elections, the AJC Editorial Board is taking a new approach to election coverage, beginning...
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