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Today is Chip Towers' last day at the AJC....

Posted on 12/31/24 at 9:04 am
Posted by SteelerBravesDawg
Member since Sep 2020
43337 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 9:04 am
Wonder if Kirby is going to send him a retirement gift.
Posted by Kneehigh
Low Country
Member since Nov 2012
15556 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 9:06 am to
Good. frick him.
Posted by wdhalgren
Member since May 2013
3821 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 9:19 am to
They have a long history that says they'll hire somebody just as negative toward UGA.
Posted by IT_Dawg
Georgia
Member since Oct 2012
24280 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 9:48 am to
Should be the last day of the AJC. It’s terrible
Posted by lewis and herschel
Member since Nov 2009
13995 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 9:51 am to
Yes, hope he continues to fall flat on his face where ever he goes. Hope the dinosaur named ajc goes the way of the dinosaurs.
Posted by SteelerBravesDawg
Member since Sep 2020
43337 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:27 am to
PREACH!
Posted by VoxDawg
Glory, Glory
Member since Sep 2012
70070 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 12:31 pm to
Posted by RD Dawg
Atlanta
Member since Sep 2012
27795 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 1:34 pm to
Mark Bradley as well.

Good riddance
Posted by Violent Hip Swivel
Member since Aug 2023
5600 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 2:12 pm to
Chip Towers definitely hasn't been perfect and was complicit in the article that got the other AJC reporter fired, but it's still important to remember that our beat writer dorks don't work for the university and aren't press release writers for the UGA Sports Information Department.

Their expectation is to call it like they see it.
Posted by wdhalgren
Member since May 2013
3821 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 2:21 pm to
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Their expectation is to call it like they see it.


I don't know how long you've been following Georgia football, but the AJC has been seeing it with a negative bias for a long time. Mark Richt disliked them just as much as Kirby does. Furman Bisher was on the anti-UGA bandwagon long before that and they've had a stream of Dawg haters covering the Ga beat for all those years.
This post was edited on 12/31/24 at 2:28 pm
Posted by lewis and herschel
Member since Nov 2009
13995 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 2:27 pm to
Give me sunshine pumpers any day, otherwise, they make a living as petty, conniving bastards praying on college kids.
Posted by Violent Hip Swivel
Member since Aug 2023
5600 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 2:31 pm to
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I don't know how long you've been following Georgia football, but the AJC has been seeing it with a negative bias for a long time. Mark Richt disliked them just as much as Kirby does. Furman Bisher was on the anti-UGA bandwagon long before that and they've had a stream of Dawg haters covering the Ga beat for all those years.



Just like SEC fans are prone to think "ESPN hates my favorite team," fans are also prone to thinking that "the big newspaper in my state hates my team."

Posted by djsdawg
Member since Apr 2015
38077 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 3:36 pm to
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it's still important to remember that our beat writer dorks don't work for the university and aren't press release writers for the UGA Sports Information Department.


Uh…..no.
Posted by HunterDawg
Member since Oct 2024
271 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 3:44 pm to
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Should be the last day of the AJC. It’s terrible


Commie rag.
Posted by Violent Hip Swivel
Member since Aug 2023
5600 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 4:00 pm to
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Uh…..no.



QÚE?
Posted by Violent Hip Swivel
Member since Aug 2023
5600 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 4:03 pm to
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I don't know how long you've been following Georgia football, but the AJC has been seeing it with a negative bias for a long time.




Out of the all the AJC Dawg reporters than I can remember, the guy Carter from about 15-20 years ago was the most despised.

The hate from fans was intense. If Carter was around today, Carter definitely would have death threads or might already be dead lol.
Posted by Dawgman77
Statham
Member since Sep 2012
747 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 4:06 pm to
His asinine questions at the press conferences were also tiresome.
Posted by Jefferson Dawg
Member since Sep 2012
32887 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 4:19 pm to
Chip Towers used to post on the previous bored under the username ‘Geeb Dweebler’. True story.
Posted by wdhalgren
Member since May 2013
3821 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 6:14 pm to
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Just like SEC fans are prone to think "ESPN hates my favorite team," fans are also prone to thinking that "the big newspaper in my state hates my team."


Maybe in some of those cases the fans are correct. How many of the sports editors of those big newspapers have been prior contributors to an article alleging game fixing by the athletic director/former head coach of the state flagship university? An article that contributed to the demise of the publishing company when the US Supreme Court found them guilty of libel.

How many of those newspapers sanctioned a long running series of of sensationalist, incomplete and misleading articles that read like hit pieces aimed at student athletes and employees of that same university, had them followed around their college town to see where they spent their free time, and then were forced to fire the writer and issue corrections because of shoddy reporting? A writer who was then revealed to have a prior history of similar problems at a former newspaper not even included in his AJC bio.

All of that aside, I've read plenty of biased news reporting over the years and the AJC's reporting on UGA football has frequently fit that description.
This post was edited on 12/31/24 at 6:17 pm
Posted by Peter Buck
Member since Sep 2012
13472 posts
Posted on 12/31/24 at 7:35 pm to
My issue is how hard they pursued off the field gossip stuff that was not sports.
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