I’m going to confess that the past several weeks have been pretty tumultuous for me with all the instability going on over at the AJC. My first and only concern was the fate of Mark Davis, because no one in the journalism world knows onomotopoeia like that guy! Boy, was I in for a treat my first terrible day back in class when our professor handed out a photocopy of one of Davis’ articles! My life has only gone reassuringly uphill since that day in August because I know that Mark is still covering the beat he knows best – non-humans:
- “Hoschton has plenty to (scare) crow about”:
Will Hoschton take away the Cincinnati society’s straw-filled crown? Bettis, who contacted the Guinness people earlier this year and got the approval to challenge the world record, wasn’t ready to declare victory.
“There will be some scarecrows they [Guinness] don’t like,” said Bettis. “It may be November until we know.”
City Clerk Kristen Smith was willing to, well, crow a little bit about the town’s accomplishment.
- “Paw prints in judge’s office spell end for masked bandits“:
But the raccoon goofed: it left a trail of tracks across a stack of federal memos. The judge called in his staff and others to solicit their opinions. Their verdict: Procyon lotor, a raccoon, had busted in.
I know Thomas Wheatley is getting jealous and needy just reading this post about another reporter for another paper! Well, with the double shake-up at Creative Loafing I got a little uneasy about him as well. But I’ll finish the script for our pilot for ABC Family and we’ll be golden. It’s a situation comedy about a journalist, a grad student, and a professor/former city employee who live as roommates in a downtown loft and negotiate their ambivalent feelings about gentrification while trying to get book deals and roles in major motion pictures.
Previously: This Incomperable Lande: Mark Davis on Zoo Atlanta
Tags: ajc, mark davis, racoons, scarecrows, thomas wheatley
That sounds like a winner! Can Eric Stoltz play me?
I think Eric Stolz is a better call than Rick Moranis.
The AJC cut quite a bit of staff in hte last couple of weeks. Apparently they had some pretty unrefusable packages they were offering to people to leave. Apparently they just really do NOT like their staff members.
We know our HTML, Christa. We are THE FUTURE!!!
Onomonto-what? Oh, you college girls with your big words!
Umm, so are you guys REALLY in collitch? The word is o-no-mato-poe-ia, sez Webster’s. Perhaps you’ve just spent too much time in yoga class. Or is this the future of journalism?
We are not really in college, and this is not the future of journalism. This is a hastily-written free time blog.
Ah, so you’re saying the standards aren’t the same as for print. Interesting.
Is all of this your way of offering to be our unpaid copy editor?