Jim Wooten to retire from AJC
January 17, 2009 at 6:23 pm by Thomas Wheatley in NewsJason Pye at Peach Pundit posts an email from Susan Meyers that says Jim Wooten, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s lone conservative voice and a 30-year veteran at the paper, will retire this summer.
In news that may shock some, be regarded as inevitable to others, Jim Wooten, the voice of principled conservative thought at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, announced to the staff Friday he will retire this summer after three decades at the newspaper.
Wooten, an award-winning journalist, can be thanked for his years of columns and editorials calling on elected officials to spend taxpayer funds as if it were being depleted from their own wallets.
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As the Associate Editorial Page Editor, it is believed Wooten will continue to post a weekly Thinking Right column as he enjoys life as a Middle Georgia farmer. To read Wooten’s bio please click here.
Who’s gonna take Wooten’s place? DaleC?
UPDATE: Here’s where to go for details if you’re interested in becoming the paper’s new conservative columnist.
January 17th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
jim wooten is still alive?
or is it just his ideas that are long dead?
January 18th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Exactly Wesley. Wooten is the main reason I don’t read the paper and I would never read his opinions online. Not because I’m afraid of ‘principaled conservative’ voices (which Wooten is not), but because he spent so much time as a GOP tool echoing their talking points like Rush and attacking ‘liberals’ as un-American. Maybe the paper has realized that people are tired of this type rhetoric and they might sell more papers if they published someone who offers ideas and solutions rather than Wooten’s cranky get off my lawn sentiments.
January 18th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
I couldn’t handle the workload. It would be tough enough to write a column that often, but knowing I have to provide GriftDrift with half of his blog material would just be too much.
January 18th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Maybe they would sell more papers if they realized that they are in a conservative state and had more than Jim as “the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s lone conservative voice”.
January 18th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
“conservative state”?
hogwash. people are people.
they just get less of an education in georgia and are more easily duped.
hence jim wooten’s career.
January 19th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Laughing at U – if you don’t think that Georgia is conservative, go buy a fifth of Jack this Sunday or explain why vibrators are illegal.
January 19th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
I really hope you aren’t making the argument that conservatives are less educated than liberals.