The gift of being an exceptional content creator is to be able to come up with the arcane tidbit that no one else is talking about, the new and fresh angle that no one has thought of yet - not just saying the exact same thing that 50 other people have already said. Lang does this every day. It’s my challenge. Yesterday everyone was posting tributes to Ted Turner, including me. I tried to put my own personal touch on my tribute, offering the obscure tidbits that I remembered.
Seems like everyone at WSB just has to line up and take Bellwood Coffee to task, kind of like that scene in the movie Airplane!. I’m finally figuring out why. They need content to talk and write about, and the juicier the better. They’re too busy to analyze, to step back and provide a deep response. They don't realize they're saying the same thing everyone else has already said. They’re just concerned with clicks. Don’t stand in their way.
This week I’ve looked at how many impressions some of these so-called content creators are getting, and it really ain’t much - not too much more than I get, which is embarrassing.
Radio dude says if a Chipper mural was painted over, there’d be a huge protest, but when I point out that an Aaron mural in Buckhead was replaced with an ad for mayonnaise, there was hardly any outrage. Radio guy failed to make the connection, and I didn’t feel the need to spoon feed him. I was left feeling dirty just for getting sucked into the “conversation”.
But really Grant Park is different from Buckhead, and Jovita is different than Hank. The Jovita mural was Grant Park’s mural, even if she lived in suburban Dunwoody. People identified with Jovita because of the mural - she was their girl, their icon. But a huge percentage of other Atlantans had no idea that Jovita was so beloved. Nothing wrong with that. Just different worlds.
Similarly, some were offended when the decades old Hank Aaron tribute wall in the parking lot that used to be Atlanta Stadium was recently torn down to make way for the new Georgia State baseball stadium - even though a brand new, much nicer Aaron memorial would be built in it’s place. Some would rather keep the old run down parking lot, progress be damned.
The Ponce mural was painted over. No outcry. Same with the Buckhead mural. Different icons. Different neighborhoods. Different outcomes. Jovita was WSBs. I just wish WSB would stop rehashing the story.
Murals mean so much to some people. To others just an afterthought. After a week of murals being in the spotlight, I happened to notice that in Keisha Lance Bottoms political ad, three or four murals are featured. All from Atlanta, if I’m not mistaken. She’s running for governor. Perhaps she should show murals from other places as well.
Sounds like the Knicks are said to be one of the mightiest teams in the East, and the underdog Hawks took them to 6 games without much effort.
I listened to 680’s interview with longtime Hawks executive Steve Koonin, who first met Ted as a Coke advertising associate. The 68 year old Koonin sounds like an okay guy, likening himself to Senator Blutarsky from Animal House. Koonin hinted that the Hawks would be working to sign their head coach to a long term contract.
Ernie Johnson Jr also gave tribute to Turner, and introduced a short video that included quotes from Andrew Young, Dale Murphy, Jimmy Carter, and others.
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