Civil Rights Article
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40 Years Later, Civil Rights Makes Page One
The article was published yesterday and read, "40 Years Later, Civil Rights Makes Page One," was about The Herald-Leader in Lexington, KY. It talks about the poor coverage the newspaper conducted during the Civil Rights movement. Although, It was not common among other newspapers in the South, it caused the newspaper's readers to miss out on one of the most important stories of our time.
Instead the newspaper slanted their coverage to permeate and discredit civil rights groups. "A revolution was going on, and ignoring it was pretending it was a few flecks of foam on top of the waves," said Mr. Carter who is now president and chief executive on the John S. and James L. Knight foundation, which focuses on Journalism and communities.
The story detailed how then-publisher and general manager Fred Wachs set a policy of not reporting on some of the protest marches, non-violent sit-ins at lunch counters and stand-ins at "whites only" movie theatres in town. If a protest was covered at all, it usually was relegated to a brief on an inside page of The Herald, which was Lexington's morning paper, or The Leader, the city's afternoon daily at the time...