My long-lost LJ! I don't want to lose you, so I'll update you.

More in-depth posts to come!

WMAZ 13 is the NBC affiliate in Macon, and well, um, I'm sort-of speechless about it at this moment. I'm not sure if the station is trying to get their audience more involved in their broadcasts or if this was just a big whoops-y, but Google news picked up this supposed "story" from there site which actually ended up being their 6 o'clock broadcast ( Read more... )

Usually I spend my time on the AJC.com scoffing at the poor editing, less-than par headlines and odd placement of stories. Today, however, I found something that I actually liked and agreed with.

To me, a straight news lead is pretty easy to write. It usually goes something like this: What, who (depending on who the story is actually about, if ( Read more... )

I know that this post won't count for class, but I just had to post this screen shot.

I saw this vagina review today while shopping for a new cell phone, and um, it seems like this guy didn't quite properly clear his email before checking it on this phone in front of millions of people. Seriously, dude?

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I know that I probably sound like a clichéd broken record, but I cannot, not, not emphasize how news organizations can not give enough attention to copy editing. Obviously it's a big deal to me, but seeing your comments in my other post, it only solidifies the point: copy errors take away from the story! On a recent trip to CNN.com, I was intrigued ( Read more... )

I thought I'd start this post with a few words about my last. I decided to x-post the blog about Dave FM trying out music in the mornings in the Atlanta community on livejournal.

42. That would be the number of comments that I got on it there.
12. That would be the number of comments that actually had something to do with the subject at hand.

The ( Read more... )

I was extremely excited this morning when I turned to Atlanta's some-what new Dave FM and heard music playing at 9 a.m. The obvious absence of some goon babbling on and on about Paris' new BFF befuddled me, and I was tempted to tune in. Soon after David Grey was finished swooning me with his brilliant Britishness, I learned of a new segment: Music ( Read more... )

After the last post, I feel that it may only be appropriate that I do a post about the pandas at Zoo Atlanta!

Well...not so much just the pandas, more about the folks who write about them.

The Zoo has been so with-it since the birth of Mei Lan back in 2006 that they set up a Panda up-date blog-type thing to keep those who are interested in the ( Read more... )

A story about the new panda cub almost being able to open his eyes grabbed my attention today on ajc.com. This interest, of course, was distracted by repeated patterns of inadequate (or just lazy) AJC copy editing. Unfortunately, this hasn't been my first run-in with such a trend on ajc.com. And to be honest, I am fed up with grammatical errors ( Read more... )

I can't help but to not think about CNN's web coverage of Ike over the weekend. I know CNN is not local *Atlanta* media, but one of their headquarters lie in our beautiful city, so I am awarding myself the right to brag on them. I mean, hey, there's not much Atlanta media to brag about -- so I have to dig where I can.

Solid. Impactful. Artistic. ( Read more... )