AJC section changes/staffing cuts - INTERESTING UPDATE 8/26

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You're gonna quit, right?! VOLUNTARY, RIGHT!!!

 

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Quit makin sense, would ya?
It would be like a dumbass sports-talk programming director dumping a sports-talk show on a sister news-talk station because the mood fits him.
The people in charge have no fucking clue and should be shot... or at least dipped in honey and dropped on an ant hill....

 

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Agreed.

 

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We need to be careful here, in bemoaning the possible departures of some quality people, that we don't give bad management the bright idea to turn down certain individuals when it realizes it might actually lose valuable contributors. As much as we might treasure someone's work, they probably have earned the right to exit with a check. And our fretting and cussing over it might tip off management and end up forcing the people to stay when they really, really want to leave.

Knew one writer who, not so long ago, was told he wouldn't get a buyout because he was too important to the paper. So when he asked for a raise, they told him no anyway.

I know it's topsy-turvy but: Good people in this business have earned the right to leave it with a fistful of the bad guys' money (or as much as they can get).

 

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Screwed twice and not even a reach-around, eh?

 

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Any editors in sports take the buyout?

 

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Who needs Barnhart and Hummer when you can have journalistic excellence like this.

It seems, according to the AJC's crack research, that fans of Georgia's rivals think the top-ranked Bulldogs are overrated. Coulda knocked me over with a feather.

http://www.ajc.com/wireless/content/sports/uga/stories/2008/08/01/georgia_fans_coaches_poll.html?imw=Y

 

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I think a better analogy is the Courier-Journal without a college basketball writer.

 

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Yeah, I read that story too and was blown away by the lack of relevance. A Tech fan said "To Hell with Georgia"? When!?!? Prove it!?!?!

It smacked of the story about a writer wearing a Red Sox hat in New York and all the jeers he got. I think the Globe did that one.

 

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From what I hear, people like Michelle Hiskey and Matt Winkeljohn took the buyouts, too. Winkeljohn is the AJC's lead Georgia Tech writer. Haven't heard about Awtrey.