At least they now have the integrity to admit it

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New beat writer covering GT admits he roots for ugag.

Hopefully AUC will soon be out of business.
 
texstinger said:
New beat writer covering GT admits he roots for ugag.

Hopefully AUC will soon be out of business.
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Thought he said he just went to UGAg (not that that's much better) and I know more than a few Techies who hail from Athens who underwent a complete turnaround.
 
I can only think of one 'journalist' that went to Tech, and he makes about five times a journalist's salary running CNN.com, so holding your hopes out for a naturally pro-Tech graduate from a journalist school anywhere is probably futile.

He used to write for the alumni newsletter though, on a volunteer basis.
 
beej67 said:
I can only think of one 'journalist' that went to Tech, and he makes about five times a journalist's salary running CNN.com, so holding your hopes out for a naturally pro-Tech graduate from a journalist school anywhere is probably futile.

He used to write for the alumni newsletter though, on a volunteer basis.
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HAHA, there you are mistaken. Spencer Hall of the Sporting News got a degree from Georgia Tech and lives in Atlanta. Writes the college football alphabetical during the season and it's hilarious.

http://www.sportingnews.com/experts/spencer-hall/
 
GTLiebs said:
Thought he said he just went to UGAg (not that that's much better) and I know more than a few Techies who hail from Athens who underwent a complete turnaround.
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Continue reading further down in the auc "Tech" blog.

He says he admits to rooting for ugag.

This scum does not deserve to come near our S/As.
 
texstinger said:
Continue reading further down in the auc "Tech" blog.

He says he admits to rooting for ugag.

This scum does not deserve to come near our S/As.
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I looked and you are correct. As much as journalism is suppose to be just a reporting process, you can't keep out bias. Will probably lead to him either not mentioning something cause he won't see it as important or he'll play a lot of things down.
 
GTLiebs said:
Thought he said he just went to UGAg (not that that's much better) and I know more than a few Techies who hail from Athens who underwent a complete turnaround.
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One of the few I know joined my fraternity freshman year (at Tech), vowed his allegiance to UGA, wore red and black in our section behind the band during the 2003 UGA game...

...and promptly failed out of Georgia Tech three semesters later and returned to Athens.
 
HOT OFF THE FREAKING PRESS!!!!

"I did not say I root for Georgia, I said I graduated from Georgia."

QUOTE from auc blog: "I'd like to point out that although I do pull for Georgia this in no way will be reflected in my writing."

So the words "root" and "pull" are not the same thing in this context?

And by his own words, he does "pull for Georgia". So when we play them on Grant Field, will he be pulling for ugag, or not? And it will not be reflected in his reporting?

Horse crap.

A day for celebration when those scumbag blame America first ugagers go out of business.
 
While I don't like having a mutt in charge of covering us, I don't think this means we aren't going to get fair coverage. Jay Bilas went to Duke and he never stops praising UNC. I wouldn't be shocked to see this guy go a little out of his way to kiss up to us...that's not to say that doing this is necessarily good reporting.
 
gtfan088 said:
While I don't like having a mutt in charge of covering us, I don't think this means we aren't going to get fair coverage.
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No, that's not the reason the coverage will be biased. The coverage will be biased, poorly researched, largely unedited, and vacuous because it is the AJC printing it. They are poorly run and I can't imagine why any talented journalist would accept a job offer from them. In the words of one of my law school classmates "I spent five years in journalism, then my paper let me go. The only offer I got was from the AJC. That's when I knew I wasn't cut out to be a journalist." Right on.

Newspapers in general are failing, bu not newspapers in huge markets with no local competition. The AJC stands at the forefront of incompetency in print.

And seriously---why in the world would any of you give credit to his statement that he doesn't hate Tech or any other school? Either he's lying, or he's not who you want covering college sports. Anyone who goes to a major southern school and doesn't hate at least two other southern schools is someone whose opinion on sports isn't worth a hoot. He could have said "I hate Tech, Auburn, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, etc. But I will be unbiased. Give me chance to prove it."
 
As much as I love Spencer Hall/Orson Swindle and his website, he's not really much of a Tech fan. I think he likes the school, and he likes our coach, but he is a UF fan through and through. Which is fine. I'm planning on going to Penn State for grad school, and there's no way in hell I'm going to care about that school. He does hate UGA though, so that's bonus points.

As for the AJC, it's not a bad paper, if you're a bum looking for a blanket and pillow.
 
Guys, we have a former UGAG player on our coaching staff, and had another in Mac McWhorter some years ago. Nix, like it or not, helped coach us over AU twice, and Vince Dooley played at Auburn.

As long as he gives us fair coverage, I really don't care where he went to school. He is a professional now, let's give him the chance to be one.
 
The AJC and INTEGRITY should NEVER be mentioned in the same sentence without the words "lack of"--AJC and integrity are mutually exclusive. UGAG grads severely polluted the talent pool at that RAG years ago.
 
texstinger said:
Continue reading further down in the auc "Tech" blog.

He says he admits to rooting for ugag.

This scum does not deserve to come near our S/As.
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Read some more of the blog. He states that someone faked his screen name and posted that info. It appears he can now "gray out" his input.
 
stinger78 said:
Guys, we have a former UGAG player on our coaching staff, and had another in Mac McWhorter some years ago. Nix, like it or not, helped coach us over AU twice, and Vince Dooley played at Auburn.

As long as he gives us fair coverage, I really don't care where he went to school. He is a professional now, let's give him the chance to be one.
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:+1: If he's a professional we'll know soon enough. If he's not, the AUC will just look more ridiculous than they already do.
 
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