Yowzeree!!!! The homie, the AJC, is re-tooling the whole freakin' enchilada. Massive re-everything to occur. I'll let Peachtree Screed tell you all about it. After all, he did work there for many years.
I'd feel sorry for 'em if they weren't such arrogant little snots. I'll never forget standing up at an Atlanta Press Club thingwee at Manuel's (it was a post-mort on the '04 election cycle) about two years ago, and asking Cindy Tee of the AJC and her co-panelists, local & Georgia TV news directors, if they "had any plans to incorporate 'new media' into their coverage?" They all, quite proudly too, told me flat out -- NO. One said they weren't going to do a thing different unless their focus groups told 'em otherwise. Another even said, "I only read the AJC, the WSJ and the NYT."
UPDATE: No, the big news didn't make their front page. Didn't really think it would! But here's the "internal" version, from the Business section today. That piece is (mercifully?) free of any staff quotes other than "Hey, we believe." (WTF?) Kinda lacks ummmppph that way, n'est ce pas?
I'll see what I can do about that glaring ommission here on the SGR for you today. Enquiring minds do want to know. Standby...
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"...if they "had any plans to incorporate 'new media' into their coverage?" They all, quite proudly too, told me flat out -- NO. One said they weren't going to do a thing different unless their focus groups told 'em otherwise. Another even said, "I only read the AJC, the WSJ and the NYT."
To bad you didn't catch *that* on video for posterity... ;-)
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