RADAtlanta's Dec. Issue was themed "That time I Ran into Steve"

Now to turn it into a zine. First draft.

I wrote about The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ending print, why I criticize it from the Progressive left, and why Atlanta shouldn't equate "saving the AJC" with "saving local journalism." #atl #gapol brianpbannon.medium.com/to-the-last-...

And this NPR interview with Robert Draper about his profile of Marjorie Taylor Greene does't mention her efforts to defund public media. www.npr.org/2025/12/31/n...

The NYTs lengthy profile of MTG doesn’t mention her leading the fight to defund public media. Its new profile of NPR CEO Katherine Maher, while mentioning the Anti-American Airwaves hearing, attributes it to Republicans in Congress without mentioning Greene. #gapol www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/b...

Breaker, a gossipy New York-based media newsletter, was given an exclusive scoop on tomorrow's front page of the final print edition of the AJC. It includes a front page pieces by Cox Ent. Chairman Emeritus James Cox Kennedy. #atl #gapol www.breakermedia.com/p/the-breake...

I’m hoping to write a piece about how the AJC is curating its own history as it ends print editions. I likely won’t post it until the New Year, but today’s inclusion of a full-page article, "College radio keeps its cool," in the final Sunday print edition is certainly a choice. #atl #gapol

Xmas Eve at Archer's

"Motivational Mad Libs. A mirror let you write your own headline, but the limited words--HOPE, POWER, BRAVE, LEGACY--ensure that a "new" story is the same aspirational narrative the paper has long wanted to tell." Started drafting a zine about Headline House.

Both Semafor and Status have items on the future of Axios including speculation that AJC Publisher Andrew Morse could replace the founders if they leave. Morse's "ambitious plan" to grow the AJC's subscriber base, while hyped by national media reporters, has so far www.status.news/p/axios-cox-...

In not running for Georgia Gov., MTG lets all the political journalists who've developed an access relationship w/ her over the past year to not press about the future of public media in Georgia. #gapol apnews.com/article/arka...  Arkansas becoming 1st state to sever ties with PBS, effective July 1

MTG and The Unaccountability of Political Journalism: Marjorie Taylor Greene has been a favorite subject for political journalists over the past year. but her mainstreaming coincided with her leading efforts to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. #gapol

Over the weekend a pop-up gallery used one of the currently vacant stores in L5P. There's a lot of turnover in small retail + who knows what lies ahead so it was cool to see one of the empty spaces used for creative purposes. I believe 7 Stages Theater started in a shop around the corner. #atl

Today is the anniversary of the Winecoff Hotel fire. For a piece contrasting the memorials “etched in stone” near the Atlantic Station arch and the ones people make at the Krog St. Tunnel, I did some research on Atlanta Time Machine, www.atlantatimemachine.com/downtown/bur...

Nobody loves me, but my mother, And she could be jivin` too.

Echoes of the Millennium Gate at Atlantic Station. #atl

Elle rejects Harvard for a junior college and retains her personal integrity.

The rest is silence.

Through the cumulative effects of heavy traffic, an unhealthy diet, and not knowing how to spell fascists.

Like politics, the Center of Urology keeps shifting.

Everything Lasts Forever. #atl

Anti-ICE Demonstration at Freedom Parkway and Moreland. #atl

Album 88 still a great way to discover new music. #atl

"It’s easier for Atlanta’s nonprofit, foundation, and media leadership class to 'prioritize local news' when local news never challenges Atlanta’s nonprofit, foundation, and media leadership class." #atl #gapol brianpbannon.medium.com/not-so-exclu...

The AJC sponsored today's WABE newsletter? What a surprise! #StopCoxCity #atl #gapol

For God's Sake.

Scooped the AJC by 2 months.

I wrote about last week’s WABE Board meeting, the first since the abrupt cancellation of City Lights Collective in Sept. despite a huge surge of donations after Trump’s rescission of Federal Funding and an unexpected $3 million bequest. #atl #gapol brianpbannon.medium.com/wabes-board-...

Meanwhile Nathan Deal is treated as distinguished elder statesman.

#atl #gapol

The the 1st issue of the Bird included a critique of Ralph McGill, the almost sainted editor of The Atlanta Constitution. A liberal on race he was also a supporter of the Vietnam War which the Bird opposed. Great Speckled Bird v. 1 no. 1 (March 15, 1968) share.google/xymSqJsMW5GH...

This showed up in my memories from a year ago. A flyer for gondolas on the Beltline. Don't think it flew. #atl

Takes awhile for all the signs and stickers to come down. #atl

"AI, financial services and health care companies, in particular, are vastly increasing their spending with us." The billionaires who own Axios also own the AJC. #gapol #atl

Frog in the Krog. #atl

Senate candidate Earl "Red, White, and Blue" Carter wants to cut federal funding to NYC so long as Mamdani is mayor.

"Results from Tuesday's Atlanta City Council District 2 race were inadvertently omitted from page A6 of Thursday's edition." This is the district the AJC's offices are in. How a billionaire-owned newspaper will cover a socialist city council member will be a test for its journalistic integrity.

In addition to First Liberty Spokesman Erick Erickson, the AJC is adding entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, former state lawmaker and Board of Regents member Dean Alford, and innovative financier Charles Ponzi as opinion contributors. #atl #gapol

Here's the AJC's own announcement about adding Erick Erickson as an opinion contributor. Erickson has also had opinion pieces in Bari Weiss's Free Press. I've long complained about the AJC getting free rein over Atlanta's public broadcasters, GPB and WABE... #atl #gapol www.ajc.com/about-us/202...

Cox and Friends continue to protect its own. Erick Erickson is already on air in Atlanta 3 hours a day and has yet to address his pushing the First Liberty Ponzi scheme. The AJC is not an independent watchdog on #gapol It's a billionaire-owned, heavily-conflicted and self-serving one. #atl

I haven't even taken down my Day of the Dead decorations yet. #atl

Up Johns Creek without a performing arts center.

Socialists in Cox Cities. Apparently, the newly-elected mayor of Dayton, OH is a Dem Socialist though her campaign wasn't officially endorsed by the DSA. Dayton is where Cox Ent. began in 1898. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's new offices are in District 2 which DSA candidate Kelsea Bond won.

Meant to say #gapol. #atl

At the Kelsea Bond watch party. The campaign is confident the Democratic Socialist has won Atlanta City Council District 2 without a runoff. They base this on some of their own reports from various precincts even as vote totals from Fulton County have been slow to post. #atl #gaol

There are more "Vote No on The Performing Arts Center Bond" signs than for some candidates for office. And most of the theatre productions I've been in.

All the election mailers and flyers I've received. I wish I were crafty and could make a collage out of them. #atl

Dios de los Muertos at Oakland Cemetery. I left a flower on Fred Krog's headstone. #atl