Otis L. Sanford: Setting the record straight, 40 years later

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/mar/16/setting-the-record-straight-40-years-later/

By Otis L. Sanford (Contact)
Sunday, March 16, 2008

Four years ago, Kentucky's second largest newspaper published an extraordinary front-page admission that was 40 years in the making.

"It has come to the editor's attention that the (Lexington) Herald-Leader neglected to cover the civil rights movement," the newspaper said. "We regret the omission."

The statement, published on Independence Day 2004, accompanied a series of stories and old photographs commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The series was appropriately called "Front-page news, back-page coverage." It was the paper's unorthodox way of apologizing for, in effect, missing one of the biggest stories in modern U.S. history.

But the Herald-Leader wasn't alone. The Hattiesburg, Miss., American in 2004 also apologized in print for failing to cover Freedom Summer, the massive protests that followed the slayings of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964.

In Memphis, the biggest civil rights-era story was, without question, the city sanitation strike exactly 40 years ago.

The bitter strike dragged on for about two months and led to the April 4, 1968, assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel Downtown.

FULL story at link.

[Sanity Claws]

1. So in another 40 years, will we get an apology from the corporate

media for failing to talk about *'s lies and the corruption of this regime?

[Omaha Steve]

2. 25 for Reagan and still waiting!

15 to go.