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January 28, 2004
For You Atlanta Readers
According to the AJC's Shaunti Feldhahn, an "Investment in families will head off problems" in the future. Unfortunately she doesn't mention what exactly (or even vaguely) this investment is and also how exactly it will head off any problems. She's not a good writer.
This is exactly why I don't subscribe to the AJC, although I do read it online for free. In it's zeal to capture a conservative suburban audience that increasingly doesn't bother reading the paper, they run substanceless columns from hacks like Feldhahn, have not just a conservative but outright Republican operative Jim Wooten headlining the editorial page two days a week and have even pandered to suburban Gwinnett County by creating a separate editorial page just for them.
By comparison, my DeKalb County, which in 2001 had more people than Gwinnett, doesn't even have it's own local bureau - it shares one with Rockdale County.
Surely the number of liberals in Atlanta is greater than the daily circulation of the AJC. Becoming a respectable liberal paper, something local conservatives think they are already (minus respectable) would be a much better business plan than a race to the bottom to capture a right-leaning readership that has abandoned them in droves. But then again, this is why I don't subscribe to the AJC. If they knew anything about running a business I would.
Posted by Chris at January 28, 2004 03:45 AM
Comments
I agree that most of the urban-constituency hacks they have are dismal writers, but saying so in a post which consistently misples the possessive pronoun for "it" is not all that persuasive.
Just sayin'.
Posted by: A Nonnie Mous at January 29, 2004 08:52 AM
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