Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Media Atlanta ink-stained wretches' comings and goings
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:57 PM
At the University of Virginia, he will become a lecturer in media studies and chairman of the Miller Center Forum, which organizes debates and seminars with a focus on presidential policy; it also produces a public affairs show distributed by PBS. In a hybrid arrangement, according to a colleague of Mr. Blackmon’s who did not want to be identified discussing personnel matters, he will be spending much of the coming year covering politics for The Washington Post.
According to the Miller Center, Blackmon will be introduced on Martin Luther King, Jr., Day and will join the faculty full-time in February.
Closer to home, veteran political journalist Tom Baxter will contribute to The Saporta Report, longtime business columnist Maria Saporta's online news service. Baxter, one of the Gold Dome and Southeast's most clever scribes, has penned getting-to-know-you post which is one of the more beautiful pieces of writing I've read today. And from which I'll shamelessly crib the following paragraphs about the quizzical beast known as "Atlanta":
Atlanta’s biggest selling point has always been about where it is in relation to everything else, more than anything particular about the place itself. Generations of Atlanta boosters have labored to put the city on the map, only to see the map turn squishy as this new century takes wing.They birthed a larger “Atlanta” which at one point was gobbling more acres faster than any metro area in the recorded history of the world. Now the big counties which surround the city are like rowdy brothers grown into college linemen, still trying to fit into their bunk beds.
There used to be, so the big thinkers said, two Georgias. Depending how you slice it, geographically, demographically and economically, there must by now be a dozen or so Atlantas. Maybe there’s too much there, there. In any case it becomes an ever-greater challenge to see all of it, as its visionary foremothers and fathers did, as one big beautiful thing.
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