20040520 This week’s Creative Loafing “Scalawag” title goes to Kevin GriffisThis week’s Creative Loafing “Scalawag” title goes to Kevin Griffis
This week, Creative Loafing takes the unusual step of bestowing the Scalawag title on one of its own: me, Kevin Griffis.
The shadowy group that uses its black arts to pick the Scalawag chose me for its dubious "honor" because I'm leaving my post as the paper's political reporter for a life in -- surprise, surprise, everyone -- politics.
The paper has a right to be angry. This is a crushing blow to Atlanta's venerable alt-weekly…
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I was fawned over and feared by the left and the right, respectively, and there are politicians across this great land who will finally sleep tonight knowing that the most thorough and tough-minded journalist they ever crossed swords with is laying down his pen.
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In case you're wondering, I'm departing primarily because of my daughter. Politicians need babies to kiss, and I finally have one. (In fact, she's willing to freelance for a reasonable fee.)
But does the staff think otherwise? Do they believe I've let my success, of mythic proportion though it is, persuade me that I can make a difference on a political campaign? Do they fancy me a fool, one who hasn't learned anything about the cynicism of politics from my own reporting?
"Goodbye, Kevin," they're probably saying, "and good riddance." And a good riddance to them! It would take 10 reporters to replace me -- and try as they might, they will fail!
Read the rest here: For rivaling the spinelessness of the politicians he's covered
http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/kevin_griffis/Content?oid=15683
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