Maria Saporta blasts the AJC for abandoning the ATL
Former <i>AJC</i> business writer Maria Saporta agrees with this week’s <i>CL</i> cover story - without even knowing it.
- Atlanta Business Chronicle
- Maria Saporta
Maria Saporta, who spent 27 years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, many of them as its marquee business columnist, has apparently had enough with her former employer.
On Sunday evening, she posted a long, personal column to her website lamenting the AJC’s recent rightward turn and criticizing the paper for turning its back on the city that was its home for more than 130 years:
Sadly, the AJC has a bias editor — an editor meant to remove all liberal biases within the newspapers news pages. Unfortunately, the newspaper has no bias editor to filter out the Fox News, conservative babble that distorts the information in those same pages.
You may recall that Saporta left the paper in late 2008 during its second newsroom buyout and has been writing for the Atlanta Business Chronicle since then.
Her post went up shortly after I had put the finishing touches on this week’s cover story, an examination of the very same changes at the daily paper that Saporta decries. Needless to say, I amended my story to quote her heartfelt column.