The AJ-C blinked.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday issued corrections to its recent investigation into the University of Georgia football program’s handling of sexual abuse allegations against its players and recruits.
The corrections were issued in response to a nine-page letter sent July 11 by UGA attorney Michael M. Raeber. The AJC declined the letter’s demand for the article to be retracted.
AJC editors and attorneys investigated each complaint raised by university officials in the letter and found two elements of the story that did not meet the news organization’s journalistic standards, Editor-in-Chief Leroy Chapman said in a statement.
The AJC review found no instances of fabrications in the story, as the university’s letter had alleged, Chapman said.
In a statement, the AJC said the article’s author, investigative reporter Alan Judd, was terminated for violating the organization’s journalistic standards.
They can split hairs all they want, but if it walks like a black eye and talks like a black eye, it’s a black eye.
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Upon reflection, two other thoughts to add:
- It’s a chickenshit move to stick a story like this behind a paywall. [Ed. note: Paywall has been removed.]
- The article says nothing about how Judd was vetted when he was hired, or how his editors allowed his work to appear as it did. That, too, is chickenshit.
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