Comments from just a couple of his many, many, many admirers. -- They don't call him the Dean for nothing. Bill Shipp, you are the best!!

Georgia Trend has a great article by Jerry Grillo entitled "Who's Who In Georgia Media -- Some have the power, some get the glory. But, by and large, these are the people who determine what makes the news. "

Mr. Grillo has written a great article to introduce his selection of those included, and his list is superb. As you would expect, it includes many of our favorites in the media whom we all recognize as being the best of the best.

The following couple of comments concerned the Dean:

Several . . . journalists came up again and again. Bill Shipp, until this year, a regular Georgia Trend columnist, is one.

"I like Bill Shipp's frankness," says Albany TV reporter Dawn Hobby. "He's not afraid to call it like he sees it." Shipp has been calling it that way for about 50 years and seems to have lost none of his touch. "He's still the very best political commentator in the state," says John Sugg, senior editor of Creative Loafing.
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And unrelated to the Dean, I am going to share a couple of sentences with you the event you don't read the article. They concern doing cartoons of politicians:

[Mike] Luckovich [, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution] genuinely enjoys irritating some people. One of his favorite all-time subjects is former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. "Newt was great because he was very abrasive and sensitive, and if you hit him with a cartoon it made him angry," Luckovich says with nostalgic glee. "It's disappointing when a politician wants a copy of a cartoon." Ah, the good old days. It was during Gingrich's reign that Luckovich won his Pulitzer.