Looks like Cox is doing some rebranding.
The AJ-C and Dawgnation are beat writing competitors now. Will anybody notice a difference?
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Get The Picture · Bloviation for the Dawgnation
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Chip at the AJC? This is like a WLOCP Deja vu update
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It was just yesterday you said the AJC used to have a world class sports desk. Today that’s still true.
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When you can’t go to “The Athletic”…
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I like Chip a lot. He’s asked some good questions of Kirby others have shied away from asking, especially regarding Chaney and the offense’s performance against Bama. He definitely hasn’t made a friend in Kirby. You could tell the last year or so he was not comfortable with the click baity direction of Dawgnation. I guess this means AJC and DN are no longer partners?
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He can be pretty good given the right environment. I sort of wish the Athletic had taken him instead of Schultz.
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Chip is a beat writer, like Emerson. Schultz is a columnist, and in my opinion, a damn good one. So it’s apples and oranges. Makes no sense for The Athletic to have two Georgia beat writers and no one to write opinion pieces about Atlanta / Georgia sports on the whole. 🤷🏻♂️
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Schultz was clickbait along the lines of Terrence Moore. I’ve read a few of his Braves pieces at the Athletic and they’ve gotten better, but he started out about the same in my opinion. Not a fan.
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Yeah, you and I are going to need to agree to disagree on this, especially if you’re comparing Jeff Schultz to He Who Must Not Be Named. I’ve always liked him. Maybe because our senses of humor tend to the wry and sarcastic.
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Agreed with Russ
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Ha! I had forgotten about Terrance. That dipshit used to piss off Got Sr. To no end.
I’ll call him later today and tell him Terrence will be doing the morning show on 960am.
It’ll be good to learn some new cuss words.
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Shultz is about 13% as funny and clever as he believes himself to be. his schtick has continued at the Athletic
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Schultz referring to the Dawgs as “the trembling chihuahuas” was particularly irritating. I have no use for his lame humor. However,Lily was a good dog with a better prediction percentage than her shithead owner.
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I wonder if DawgNation is fizzling out of business. Pure speculation and repetitive junk with little new info.
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It’s what happened to SEC Country. It wouldn’t be a surprise. Anyone who wants recruiting news and rampant rumor mongering can buy a 247 subscription. Anyone who wants great writing and team coverage can buy a The Athletic sub. Dawgnation at first tried to be like both, but quickly devolved into click bait.
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I would be super bummed if DN goes under just because Jeff Sentell’s recruiting coverage is outstanding and free. I am not paying for the rumor mongers at 247.
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Agreed. Jeff Sentell is a real pro. That guy knows recruiting backwards and forwards.
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Honestly, they can’t write (they actually stopped trying a while ago and I actually respect that), and all their titles are clickbait, but Field Street Forum knows everything there is to know about recruiting. If you just want to know who is trending where and who is visiting which school I highly recommend. I admit I used to really dog them a lot, but I recommend giving them a twitter follow or just going to dawgbone to read their updates.
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DN is the epitome of the degradation of journalism. Lots of short click bait articles, a ton of copy/paste content, “reporters” launching their own personal editorial campaigns (Griffith’s Jaxit pieces), playing to outrage, and puff pieces on actual important topics like the (mis)management of Greg McGarity. I used to read everything over there, and now I check it only for breaking news and Jeff Sentell’s excellent and free recruiting news.
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You left out that Connor Riley is easily one the most inept writers that covers Georgia football for a large scale publication. He’ll literally use a player’s instagram post as a source for the headline that said player “is going to be a beast” next season.
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I think I covered Connor’s role with the clickbait reference. That’s literally his job. Supposedly he’s a Grady student, which doesn’t reflect well on whatever they are teaching them these days.
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Might be a good kid, but his body of work reads like back page fodder from the Red & Black.
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I had been curious about his absence at DN. I’m curious about the internal restructuring that led to this decision. I guess DN will be its own thing.
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I don’t understand this – isn’t DawgNation a division of the AJC? Are they moving him from DawgNation to a columnist gig at AJC, like Mark Bradley?
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No, he’s on the Georgia beat, but for the paper. So that means his coverage will be in the print and digital editions. My best guess is the AJC and Dawgnation, while both owned by Cox, may soon no longer have a relationship, if Dawgnation keeps going at all.
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Well if Dawgnation ends maybe we won’t be tricked into clicking on Connor Riley articles
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So Chip’s back? I guess the fact I didn’t know he was gone isn’t a point in his favor. I also didn’t know DN and AJC were two different entities.
Considering Chip always seemed happy to denigrate the program over any slight, I don’t see how having him back changes the sorry history of ajc Dawg coverage. Get ready for a batch of stories bitching about any perceived problem. If an assistant has an interview with another school or player gets caught puffing a joint, Chip will run the program down all year.
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Reading the comments on this post further hammers home the fact that our media literacy is abysmal.
Chip’s job (any beat writer’s job, for that matter) isn’t to be a cheerleader. It’s to get information to the public that those in charge would rather keep inside. That’s the job. What’s happening, why is it happening, and what is the response from the program?
If you want a cheerleader, go read the paysites like Rivals and 247. There’s plenty of sunshine over there (one of which I pay, in full disclosure).
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I agree with you to a degree, but some writers seem to take a particular glee in pointing out all the negatives. Seth seems to do a good job of pointing out/reporting on both.
BTW, how did you feel about Munson? I believe Munson worked for the media, not UGA.
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Munson worked for UGA.
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Unless it’s changed, Munson absolutely worked for UGA and/or their media rights partner. The radio voice of any school is paid to call the games and be a supporter. That’s the job, and I’m fine with that.
The job of a beat reporter is to report what’s going on within the program, whether it’s good, bad, or ugly. Any idiot can transcribe a press release or a statement and post it. That’s not journalism, but rather PR.
The problem fans have is when they don’t understand the role of a reporter they get upset when the reporter asks a tough question or anything that might lead to the program being viewed in a negative light. Many of them don’t seem to understand the reporter is not “on their side” because he or she isn’t supposed to be. They’re supposed to be on the side of the truth.
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Agree, 100%. Some people literally have no clue what the difference is between a beat writer, a columnist, or a paid schill who only feeds you sunshine because your wittle feelings can’t take even a little hard truth, or I guess in the case of those who hate Schultz, good natured ribbing at your favewit teams expense.
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I agree Parrish.
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Bye, Chip! Don’t let the door hit ya. His negative, pessimistic, Richt-loving, non-acceptance-of-Kirby, attitude will not be missed by me! Just my opinion, YMMV. Dawgnation is becoming SDS which is the lowest of the low. GTP is my first go to for reading, The Athletic second.
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Salty indeed.
I’ll never understand the grudges some of y’all have against writers. Most of it is, “Why do you hate my favorite team?” b.s. Honestly surprised y’all who still have those feelings haven’t grown out of them at this point.
Now, some writers are just asshole agitators. Moore is one of those. But Chip is benign. He’s a beat writer who will sometimes give an opinion. Jeff Schultz is a good writer who doesn’t play favorites. That’s what you should want. Yeah, he’s busted balls in and around the Dawgs, but why take it so personally? Is hanging onto a grudge because he would call the Dawgs the Trembling Chihuahuas during the Spurrier-Goff/Donnan years really worth the effort?
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Schultz is a hipster dufus. As for not understand a beat writer’s job, get off the high horse, guys. People understand it just fine. They also understand the difference between someone who does that job like Emerson, and someone who is a troll and a click baiting hack like Towers and Mike whatever his name is. The difference is evident to anybody who reads both. And Chip didn’t get all warm and fuzzy about Richt until he was gone. He trolled Richt when he was there. It has nothing to do with people not understanding as well as you do. It has everything to do with those writers being obnoxious and being second rate Finebaums.
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Bingo.
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He trolled Richt? Really? 😂😂😂
Dude, seriously… what is the color of the sky in your reality?
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If you don’t think Towers was a click baiting troll when Richt was in Athens you weren’t reading the same Chip Towers I read. If you’re just butthurt because I didn’t tell you that you’re right, I sure hate that for you.
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All this tells me is that you, and others like you, are a bunch of butthurt babies who go out of their way to find offense from sports writers you think are insulting your favwit teams.
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He’s a bigly Trump guy, so the sky is whatever color Trump tells him it is…
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Keep it in the Pigpen, please. I have no need to know or care who he likes who you like, what you believe or what he believes. It’s not germane to this conversation. Not everything must lead back to whatever ridiculous ideology y’all feel the need to chain yourselves to, blindly.
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Lol. You can both jam it up your asses. You just want to be right and like to argue. Again, Emerson, Towers. See the difference? I do.
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Cox owns Dawgnation, I contend he never left the AJC….it’s all the same shit.
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TIL people still read sports news on the AJC
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Reading between the lines here, but it sounds like they’re trying to differentiate “DawgNation” from the AJC Sports section and moving Chip over to the latter in the hopes that it will sell more online subscriptions and give the appearance of him being a more legit, unbiased member of the media, so that there is no confusion as to what his role is. No one expects Seth Emerson at the Athletic to be a “cheerleader” for UGA football, but if you’re a beat writer for “DawgNation”, it sends a mixed message to readers and the players & coaches they’re covering. “DawgNation” sounds more like a fan site.
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Dawgnation IS a fan site.
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Full aware of that.
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After I subscribed to the Athletic, I don’t read anything else.
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I had no idea Chip Towers ever left. How long was he gone? I never read anything from the AJC and haven’t for years. It seems like a lot of UGA fans must do the same because I’ve noticed their headers seem far less like trolling articles these days. Still not going to read. Schitz and Moore were enough for me to swear theAJC off for good a long time ago.
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