A week before the election we decided to not renew our subscription to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It's not something we took lightly; we had been subscribers for nearly 20 years since moving back to Atlanta.
Add together the reduction of local news, the elimination of zoned sections and the increasing liberal leaning of the paper from its editorials to news staff and we couldn't stand it anymore. (It seems that others could not either. Associate Editorial Page Editor Jim Wooten took to working from the Marietta office rather than the Marietta Street office downtown because he couldn't stand being in the same offices with Super Liberal Editorial Page Editor Cynthia Tucker.)
One of the last straws for us was the Tucker column that referred to "the myth of voter fraud" in railing against voter ID at the polls. This from a newspaper that won a Pulitzer for its expose of voter fraud in south Georgia a couple of decades ago.
So, we have done without the AJC and haven't missed it. Except for a couple of Sundays and the lack of my daily Dilbert fix. But I've solved that with the addition of the Dilbert widget here on the blog. And it's in color too.
I have no sympathy for the AJC. They have done it to themselves. They moved from being a decent local and regional newspaper, interested in the community to a national newspaper favoring events in Washington and New York over those in the suburbs. Then they gave it away free on the Internet. Then they cut out local sections and laid off experienced local reporters and photographers. What's left, just quit publishing altogether?
No wonder that The Bright Side is doing well, it's the only local news some people receive.
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