Loo-seeeee
I literally do not know what to make of this piece from the Washington Post via Gibson:
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Lexington Herald-Leader featured a prominent clarification on its front page yesterday, apologizing for the newspaper’s failures in covering the 1960s civil rights movement.
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“It has come to the editor’s attention that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the civil rights movement,” the clarification read. “We regret the omission.”
I could not make this up.
If only I knew someone in Lexington who could put this in context for me…
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January 6th, 2005 at 10:53 pm
Um, that happened in JULY!!!!!!!! (William Gibson’s time machine got lost.)
January 6th, 2005 at 11:29 pm
Good point.
Still, what the hell? Isn’t this kind of like the Church reopening the Gallileo case in the 1980s?
January 7th, 2005 at 10:02 am
No, actually. I don’t know how much of it is available on line, but what the Herald-Leader did was try and memorialize the uncovered Civil Rights movement in Lexington now — in a city that still grapples with race in a real way. I learned a hell of a lot from the follow-up stories to the piece and they’ve managed to preserve in ink forever a bunch of people’s firsthand accounts and photographs that might otherwise have been part of the collective forgotten.
And you know, I think it’s pretty cool that the newsroom was willing to stir up some shit doing that. And I’m sure it created some interesting discussions about what similar issue they’re not covering _now_.
January 7th, 2005 at 1:04 pm
See, that’s the kind of context that I wanted.
I may openly mock Kentucky as a way to get your dander up, but the obvious truth is that doing this now is clearly a step in the right direction. Just like Mississippi reopening that KKK case.
Just the opposite of what Alabama is doing.
January 7th, 2005 at 2:29 pm
Well, we’ll differentiate ourselves from Alabamans whenever the opportunity arises.