CURIOUS INDEX, 8/4/2008
EDSBS —
... Tony Barnhart is out at the AJC. The south’s best sportswriter, Tony Barnhart, takes the buyout from Cox to leave the paper, no doubt for meatier bones offered by ESPN. Heh RTWT MSM BOO insert other blog cliche here INDEED. Of special interest: Furman Bisher was paid off in his his currency of choice–barter–and Terence Moore was retained, as was Mark Bradley, meaning Atlanta has the brainless two-headed experimental Russian dog of sports columnist we so richly deserve at our terminally-ill daily. ...
Media News & Notes
The Big Lead —
... Another talented newspaper writer, gone: Tony Barnhart leaves the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. What’s the logic here? Barnhart can be polarizing in the South, but we’ve always enjoyed his work. You know ESPN is going to scoop him up for a salary the AJC couldn’t swing. Are newspapers - with the exception of maybe the NYT and Washington Post, though the former lost three writers to SI last year - simply becoming a farm system for ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Yahoo, Fox and Sportsline? ...
Unverified Voracity Knows You Are Getting Tingly
mgoblog —
... to the season; they're super fluffy but where else can you see images of guys doing hang cleans to rawkin' 80s guitar solos? Don't answer that question. Soon-to-be-ex AJC sportswriter Tony Barnhart has Auburn spread junkie Tony Franklin give ...
Don't Cry For Me, Tony Barnhart, or, Content Is King
Sunday Morning Quarterback —
... from the Atlanta Journal Constitution last week revealed him as apparently the most respected name in his particular corner of the ink-and-paper business, which moves just that much closer to its inevitable demise. ...
