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The 16 month story 26 Aug 2013 | 03:28 pm
“We’d like to see you do some investigative reporting.” I heard those words, in various forms from various higher-ups in my newsroom several times in early 2012. Sandy Reed shows us around Bethany P...
I was fired by a legend 19 Aug 2013 | 08:17 pm
That’s my fuzzy head under the boom mic in the photo on the right, documenting my lamentable DC stint. Item: WAGA reporter Justin Gray is leaving the station to work for Cox’s Washington DC bureau. ...
Trending on Twitter 12 Aug 2013 | 02:36 pm
For centuries, the news business largely made editorial decisions based on the instincts of the professionals who ran news organizations. This wasn’t as difficult as it sounds. Stories that were top...
Tell it to the judge 5 Aug 2013 | 03:40 pm
Judge Gregory Adams is bored by WXIA’s Doug Richards and WSB photographer Tony Light. “I’d like to see the representatives of the news media at the bench now.” The reporter from WXIA and the photog f...
Confessions of a red-headed reporter 29 Jul 2013 | 02:45 pm
Early in Ronald Reagan’s first term, Huntsville Alabama TV station WAAY offered me a job. They wanted me to become the station’s bureau guy in Muscle Shoals, and offered me an annual salary of $15,00...
Gov. v. Gov 22 Jul 2013 | 03:17 pm
Doug steals Brad Carver’s schtick. This month, I have a renewed appreciation for the governor of Georgia, the Honorable Nathan Deal. Put aside his politics. Put aside his cronies or his ethics or hi...
The tree and I 17 Jul 2013 | 02:47 am
In our business, there are consequences for failure. This was mine: I got to do a live report on a tree. True, the tree had dislodged from its rootwork on a hillside in DeKalb County. It had the good...
Crime of fashion 9 Jul 2013 | 03:12 pm
A series of bad decisions led a 20 year old named Elijah Freeman to this: Handcuffed, seated in the back of a Clayton County police car, wearing a t-shirt and boxer shorts. Police had told us that t...
LAF FAQ 2013 2 Jul 2013 | 04:28 pm
Why are you still writing your blog? Sheer stubbornness, best I can tell. I get about 200 clicks per day these days, down considerably from LAF’s head-cracking heyday of about 600-800 clicks per day...
Playing lawyer 25 Jun 2013 | 07:44 pm
Oh, lovely. Here we go. “News organizations have submitted a Rule 22 for cameras in the courtroom. Because there’s an objection, we’re going to have a hearing.” The judge was speaking from the ben...
