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Locally, Georgia news coverage is still dominated by legacy media outlets such as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WSB Radio and TV, all owned by Cox Media Group. (Though its TV stations are currently up for sale.)
#gapol
Locally, Georgia news coverage is still dominated by legacy media outlets such as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WSB Radio and TV, all owned by Cox Media Group. (Though its TV stations are currently up for sale.)
#gapol
Statewide candidate debates and nightly coverage of the state legislature are on GPB, which is controlled by those same politicians.
That makes the incestuous relationship between Cox Media Group and GPB so disturbing.
That makes the incestuous relationship between Cox Media Group and GPB so disturbing.
AJC journalists are regular panelists on GPB’s Political Rewind program, where horse race and access journalism prevail, and WSB morning radio anchor Scott Slade will again host GPB’s coverage of the state legislature.
In a display of how lax Cox’s journalistic ethics have become, Slade hosted a series of WSB-produced Facebook videos about Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle nuclear plant expansion.
The videos were sponsored by Georgia Power.
The videos were sponsored by Georgia Power.
The Plant Vogtle expansion has seen massive cost overruns and is a controversial matter of statewide public policy. The Facebook videos go beyond paid endorsements, which Slade also regularly does, into outright corporate propaganda masquerading as news reports.
The AJC’s series of articles on Gov. Deal as he exits read like DPRK “Dear Leader” profiles.
Compared with their continued investigations of Former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, a bipartisan Deal ally as Neoliberal as him, such disparate coverage shows a double standard at best ...
Compared with their continued investigations of Former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, a bipartisan Deal ally as Neoliberal as him, such disparate coverage shows a double standard at best ...
or that Cox has been protecting Deal at worst.
WSB evening radio host Erick Erickson will be emceeing the Kemp inauguration.
The Cox/GPB relationship stifles independent coverage and leaves GPB without a significant outside watchdog.
The political contributions and influence of the multi-billionaire Cox family, the richest in the state, go under-scrutinized.
The political contributions and influence of the multi-billionaire Cox family, the richest in the state, go under-scrutinized.
The result is a media oligarchy as much a part of the state’s Good Old Boy network as it is a watchdog on it.
#gapol
#gapol
