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By Julia Wallace,The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sunday, March 08, 2009 Two weeks ago, you heard from our publisher, Doug Franklin, about the economic challenges at this newspaper and newspapers across the country. Last week, you heard from our head of sales and marketing about his team’s efforts to effectively sell advertising in the Atlanta market. Today, it’s my turn. I want to give you more detailed information on the content changes ahead in the next two weeks. I also want to respond to your questions to our publisher about what we are doing to make sure our news and editorial pages...

When I read this full-page ad in the AJC this morning, I wanted to jump up and shout, then go down to RBM and buy a car. Reality soon set in since they are a Mercedes dealer, but I am SO PROUD of them I could pop. Hope you enjoy this full-text version of the letter in their ad. Wvoter To Our Clients: We are sorry! While we strongly affirm the right of free speech, the June 22, 2006 Mike Luckovich cartoon depicting the U.S. as torturers on par with Al-Qaida was very offensive to us. Moreover, to publish this...

On the day that terrorists flew jets into New York's World Trade Center, CNN's head of newsgathering appeared remarkably impassive as he stood in the network's frenetic main newsroom in Atlanta. His expressions were sphinx-like, as they often were. But unconsciously, his hands fiddled nonstop with the ring from a plastic bottle cap. "It's important for someone to remain calm," he said at the time. "We have a lot of excited, anxious, busy people. . . . I'm trying to think two or three steps ahead. Where do we need to be?" Jordan, CNN's chief news executive and one of...

After 30 years of listening to nauseating chanting from Teheran to Islamabad to Nablus, hearing the childish rants about "The Mother of All Battles" and "The Great Satan," and witnessing presidents from Carter to Bush burned in effigy, the ritual torching of the American flag, the misspelled banners of hatred, the thousands of paint-by-the-numbers posters of psychopaths from Khomeini to bin Laden, televised threats that sound as hideous as they are empty, Nazi-inspired anti-Semitism, embassy takeovers, oil-boycotts, hijacked planes, cars, and ships, lectures from unelected obese sheiks with long names and gold chains, peacekeepers incinerated in their sleep, murders at...

<p>There have been false reports that CNN has not used the word "terrorist" to refer to those who attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon. In fact, CNN has consistently and repeatedly referred to the attackers and hijackers as terrorists, and it will continue to do so.</p>