Cynthia Tucker absconds from AJC
Cynthia Tucker has finally jumped ship at the AJC - sort of.
It's been two years since the AJC disbanded its editorial board and sent former editorial page editor and star columnist Cynthia Tucker packing off to D.C. to blog about national politics.
Well, the paper just posted an article announcing that Tucker is leaving the AJC "to become a visiting professor at the University of Georgia’s journalism school."
The only question is, what took her so long?
We've criticized the AJC for many of its editorial and business decisions over the past few years, but none of the paper's actions has been as craven and shameful as its transparent stifling of its own editorial voice. After studiously ignoring its hometown through a couple of election cycles, the AJC officially threw in the towel on all political endorsements in October 2009 with the following cynical spin: "We have heard from readers — and we agree — that you don’t need us to tell you how to vote."