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DEL.ICIO.USAnother Cracker Crumble. No fistfights or duels reported.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Georgia Press Association held its annual “Cracker Crumble” tonight at the Cobb Galleria. Several hundred attended.
It is a strange event. Ostensibly, it’s a means of funding a journalism scholarship program. In truth, it is a hostage situation, without the option of bringing in the SWAT team.
Politicians, who pay good money, are forced to endure 90 minutes of insult comedy and song, from both journalists and professional actors. Usually, the prime targets are smart enough not to show up.
Estrangement is a signature of the dinner. It is, in fact, a throw-back to the days of separate-but-equal Georgia. In a hall full of tables, journalists and politicians end up eating with their own kind.
One of the few tables with a mixture of scriveners and elected officials appeared to be the one occupied by House Minority Leader DuBose Porter of Dublin, his wife, their three sons and dates.
Porter is also a newspaper publisher. The family seemed conflicted.
Matt Towery, publisher-proprietor of InsiderAdvantage, again acted as master of ceremony. Perhaps in error, he assumed the crowd had not imbibed enough, and sought to encourage more applause with a drinking game called “Sonny Did.”
“Who skipped the Cracker Crumble again?” Towery asked.
“Sonny did,” the crowd responded. A drink was required.
“Who employed more twenty-somethings as top experts in policy than anyone in America?”
“Sonny did.” Another drink.
“Who, according to Bill Shipp, fired the fatal shot at the grassy knoll?”
And so on.
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By Barry
March 9, 2007 8:20 AM | Link to this
“It’s” is a contraction for “it is” and is never possessive, as is used incorrectly in the first paragraph - and, of all things, in commentary on a dinner for journalists. Egad.
By J. Carlton
March 12, 2007 10:50 AM | Link to this
I thought the new format of the show made it flow and the skits and news segments were highly entertaining and satirical! Great job to the GPA and its staff of writers…