Reply #47: Atlanta's Shame...

[DirtyDawg]

...There once was a time when Atlanta could boast being the home of a number of the country's most respected and effective corporations. Over the years many of those corporations have succumbed to the vagaries of 'shareholder value' and have ceased to exist - at least in name only. We used to have large, respected banking institutions - virtually all are owned and run by North Carolinians, or New Yorkers, or somebody. We used to be the headquarters of a once-great company Georgia-Pacific - wonder if they had to do it over again if they would move here? Either way, somebody else owns it and decisions are made elsewhere. We used to be the home of one of the largest and most successful of the, so-called, Baby Bells, but lame-ass management allowed it to - again, in the name of what's best for the shareholders (basically, that meant that they had been out-maneuvered and had run out of ways to increase the value) was acquired by some Texans (what does that remind you of) that decided to put Humpty Dumpty together again because they think they can make more money that way. And while I'm at it, would UPS make the same decision now to move to Atlanta that it did all those years ago? And as for Home Depot, that once-proud orange box has lost whatever passed for leadership years ago. One of their former founders has a big fish tank that can't feed whale sharks without killin' 'me, and the other looked Michael Vick in the eye and said, 'you're my man, here's $130 million.'

My point in this is that the one company/institution that we could have done without is still calling Atlanta home - CNN - why in God's name won't TimeWarnerAOL put us out of our misery and close the bastards down, move the Blitzer's, the Dobbs, the Becks...the whole lot of 'em...to New York or someplace and turn the building into a huge homeless shelter. They've become in toto what Jon Stewart said a couple of years ago to BowtieBoy - a bunch of 'dicks'...hell, I can remember a studio director saying on the air during a documentary of CNN's coverage of the first Gulf War - 'Shut up Blitzer!' in order to keep him from skinnin' his ignorance any further on the air - too bad it didn't' take.

So I say, please, please, whoever's in charge of TW shut the place down now. We'll find something to do with the building - if nothing else we'll let Blitzer stay there for nothing - after all if you guys weren't stupid enough to keep him on the payroll, he'd have been on the street years ago.