'Chronicle' names executive editor

I wonder if the AC finally has an editor who realizes that the city isn't full of the right-wing kooks that live on the comment boards and gives this city some balance in its hysterical op-ed page. Just some balance, please. If you want the populace to buy your wares, you have to speak to all of them. Columbia County does not make up the AUGUSTA part of the AC's moniker, but this paper seems to cater to them a bit TOO much. You'd be surprised, Mr.Morris. Your paper would sell much, much better if you balanced it out.

Hope he is fair and balanced...

The editorial page is just that. It reflects the vast majority of the community that reads. The rest of the paper continues to be supplied with stories from the hard left AP. Seems pretty balanced. It's the quality of the stories I'd like to see improved.

wonder if the chronicle is still going to still read like fox news

PT, you're living with blinders on. The editorial page could not possibly reflect the "vast majority of the community". (I notice your snide "...that reads", implying that those who don't share the AC's editorial stance are probably illiterate...btw, should be "who" reads, O, educated one, but that's a mere quibble.) As Lobosolo notes, the paper would be doing better if it stopped catering to the rabid right-wing religious folk around here. After a lifetime of getting a daily paper, I finally stopped last Sept. and all because of the editorial coverage of the election. I'll never give them another dime...UNLESS they moderate their editorial stance. And I know other people who feel the way I do.

if you consider the implied "group" the "...that reads" would be correct, midwest. Also, so you're not reading the printed version of the AC, but you post semi-intelligent comments every day on their virtual paper. Way to punish.( Lefties is real smart.) Ask someone to explain how this version of the paper turns a profit.

E.A. should have the job.

Advertising has also added chiefs,,,chiefs with titles that are clearly made up...what kind of business model do they follow?

Did you mean "semi-intelligent" comments?

sbcrawford: you're right on the mark.

Fair will never seem balanced to a liberal. Jesus was fair but wouldn't seem balanced to a liberal. Those who think killing unborn babies isn't fair to the baby are surely hated by the liberal as not being balanced. To be balanced in the mind of a liberal, evil must be promoted as being as good as good.

soldout,you make an excellent point. Liberals promote those who are evil, while conservatives put their evil ones out to pasture.The problem with liberals is they do not want to recognize intelligence and moral leadership. My brother in law is a liberal, and in a conversation I had with him Sunday, I was more or less banished from the south for espousing my conservative views. Don't get me wrong, sometimes the liberals have a view that I will support, but they want to blame everyone else for their problems and then blame everyone else when their solutions do not work.

The vast majority of this community is not made up of rabid, unrepentant conservatives. Augusta has voted blue in the last two presidential elections. Nobody is asking the paper to give up writing their daily blather in their editorials. We would just like to see some intelligent articles by writers other than Malkins, Thomas, and the others. Decent newspapers have a balance between liberal and conservative thought in their guest columnists. The tired Chronicle has always thought that it holds some sway over people of the community, as if their editorials would actually convert people to their tired way of thinking. Sometimes it is pure insulting. What are you afraid of, Mr. Morris? Mr. Ryan? Throw in some content to the majority. You just might sell a few more papers.

re-read sbcrawford's comments. there are only two opinion pages in the entire newspaper, the rest is news.

The article is interesting. I wonder if he went to school anywhere or if leaving out educational background is just standard procedure for reporting at the AC. You know, some people actually go to school, at a college or university, and STUDY journalism and/or photography. I think this makes the story incomplete. Hopefully he can raise the standards.