Haven't read the AJC for years. Growing up, I read it every morning and there was plenty about both teams. Now it is not worth my time.
There’s nobody like Bisher and Outlar anymore. That style of journalism is truly dead. They wrote with an editorial eloquence and in a manner that spoke for the two major constituencies, Outlar for UGAg (TAC) and Bisher for Tech (TAJ). They were advocates, but with a very genteel style.
They also tended to write about higher level issues - issues of substance. Their Sunday columns were about the games, but weren’t just game recaps any reporter could muster up. They discussed the games, the larger implications, the longer range impacts, and the issues they saw arise within the game itself. It was a full-orbed treatment that you just don’t get today. It was editorial sports writing at its best. It was positive and it was enlightening. It was sportsmanship in verbal form.
That has been largely replaced by partisan snark, shallow reporting, and high-brow pontificating. It’s often sharply worded with the favored team enjoying the advantage. It is meant to provoke irritation as much as to provide information. Bisher and Outlar could write those things, too (e.g.: Granning-Holt incident), but rarely did. They had a higher mission, it seems, and I miss it.
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