Mike Knobler owned by comments

[cyclejacket]

I'm not usually that sensitive to their writers, but I gotta agree with srschirm here. Something just doesn't smell right about your own beat writer making fun of you. Its bad enuff that the puppie riffraff is allowed to pollute almost every one of our blogs with the same ole bull****. Imagine if Carter Strickland wrote a column like this about Ugag. The ajc website would melt down from the objections and CS would probably be looking for another place of employment.

 

[Bogey]

Bingo.

I get tired of people confusing poor quality with UGA bias. Most of the sports writers aren't UGA grads - Carter Strickland (UGA beat writer) is the only one. Knobler and Winklejohn are not - nor are any of the columnists.

Do you even read their articles?

 

[beej67]

I wouldn't wipe my ass with that paper.

But I'd definitely wipe my ass on Knobler's car door handle, if I knew where he lived.

 

[gth816f]

My problem with the AJC is not the obvious UGA slant. UGA is the large state university with a bat sh*t insane fan base that absolutely gobble this garbage up like a it's a can of Skoal.

No, my problem with the AJC is the overall quality of the newspaper. It's a rag, with horrible writing in general. It's written for the lowest common denominator in the area, which usually happens to be the Cro-Mags that also wear a camo UGA hat. Every section of that newspaper is crap. If you want a well written paper that actually has a positive Tech slant, just get a copy of the 'Nique every week.

While I appreciate the Technique for what it is, I don't know what your definition of "well written" must be. The Technique is written by people without college degrees who aren't even working towards degrees in journalism. While the AJC might not have the greatest writing, it is clearly a step up from the Marietta Daily Journal(the quality of the writing is so bad that many times it doesn't even read smoothly) or the Technique(student newspaper). Is it on the level of the NY Times or USA today? Definitely not, but those are national papers. The quality of the writing tends to go up with the size of the region the paper is made for.

 

[beej67]

Simit Shah, Technique sports editor (now retired and working for CNN as the manager for cnn.com) had more journalism skill in his pinky finger than is on the entire AJC sports writing staff, with the possible exception of Barhhart and Bisher.

I wish there was an archive of his articles. They were outstanding.