Comments on: Your daily news fix

By: Ken Bailey

Ken Bailey — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:53:12 +0000

Today I read an article that stated that white males in Georgia were more impacted by unemployment in the current economic downturn than any other group, but no information was given on the percentage breakdown of those other groups. Just over two weeks ago an article sourced from the Georgia Dept of Labor indicated that unemployment for white males in Georgia had reached 8.4 percent while unemployment for black males exceeded 16 percent. Which article is correct?

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:36:08 +0000

Pathetic. This once-great Southern newspaper has wasted away — like a dying cancer patient on life-support. It’s not much more than a useless tabloid anymore. Paper has kept shrinking in small increments — they think nobody notices — there is less and less in it. Really who is going to pay to read this thing anymore? Certainly not me. They really just need to put this newspaper out of its misery and be done with it! It’s really time to pull the plug. RIP AJC.

By: serene

serene — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:23:04 +0000

Shawn,
I went to the link and re read the story and your comments at the bottom. When the AJC looks up the IP address of commenters on the blog and then tries to publicly identify them because it might be “newsworthy” in their sovereign opinion, I think that is trying to silence people from writing freely.

Let’s have the editors and the reporters in this matter step out of the shadows and into the public light so we can judge their actions for ourselves.

Had someone in government followed a similar approach you would never allow the matter to end with “we reviewed our policy”. I would like to see the AJC come clean and explain the whole affair with names and reasons publically explained.

By: Shawn McIntosh, AJC Public Editor

Shawn McIntosh, AJC Public Editor — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:25:15 +0000

Jonathan, don’t know if you saw my comment at the bottom of the article you linked to; it might have been added after you posted the link.

And Serene, the AJC does not try to silence blog posters; comments are removed only if readers alert us to a concern or something objectionable like obscenity slips through. If you read the article, you will see the author was actually making the case that the AJC should pre-screen comments.

By: J Reacher

J Reacher — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:18:29 +0000

Ah, but don’t you find it comforting when our ’superiors’, those arrogant elitists who always know what’s best for us turn out to be petty mortals?

By: Serene

Serene — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:01:05 +0000

It followed the link from Jonathan above and found the whole process of AJC reporters spying on blog posters and trying to silence them chilling. Let’s have the reporters and the editors who tried to suppress speech on AJC.com come out of the shadows and take responsibility for their actions.
The AJC would never accept “we explained our policy” as a substitute for accountability and we the readers should not either.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:21:56 +0000

Mark –

Do you all seriously track the origin of your online audience and harass them like this? This is over the top.

http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/62538

By: conservative reader

conservative reader — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:40:00 +0000

thank you, thank you for running Thomas Sowell’s and George Will’s columns yesterday…. I simply do not understand how any logical person could argue against their views.

By: BF

BF — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:36:00 +0000

I waited several weeks before deciding to add my two-cents’ worth of commentary about the new newspaper format. I’ve had enough, and will not be renewing my subscription. What I can’t fathom is that the AJC boasted that it spent over a million dollars to look like this. If this had done in any other line of commerce, I would think it would be labeled financial mismanagement. I must agree in part with Chris’ comments (May 12th). The AJC has indeed “lost all its value and relevance” for me. It looks like a USA Today wannabee, with the type set smaller and more difficult to read, and adopting all those full-color trashy trendy cutesy over-sized banners/captions to disguise the fact that AJC is printing a great deal less. I’m not getting my money’s worth. Chris also did a very good job on addressing AJC’s editorial policy of sensationalistic reactionary rhetoric. And the editor’s idea of what is worthy of being carried as news is certainly not mine. The AJC does indeed need to get back to the basics and better reporting.

By: Clendon

Clendon — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:52:39 +0000

@Mark – The AJC wont be printing a weekday paper much longer. My friend works in the newsroom and says all the editors and reporters admit that the weekday papers are boring and useless.