“TV news stinks.” A year ago, WXIA-TV News Director Ellen Crooke posted those provocative three words for a class of University of Georgia students. Local TV news tends to be “boring, repetitive, irrelevant and too depressing,” she told local blogger and former WAGA-TV news reporter Doug Richards, who she later hired. Crooke, who came to Atlanta from Buffalo in 2008, ditched the often successful (yet often derided) “if it bleeds, it leads” mentality and has tried to make the station more user-friendly. And given the station’s position behind WAGA-TV and WSB-TV, taking risks is a prerogative