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Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal news editor Patsy Brumfield watched Tom Brokaw’s documentary program on Jackson Sunday night and pontificates on its portrait of the capital city: “The general conclusion of Brokaw’s report is that while most whites and well-educated blacks are doing pretty well across America, young and poorly educated blacks are not - that decades after passage of the Civil Rights Act, we find ourselves back in serious trouble racially.”

A newspaper’s credibility is the measure of trust that its customers place in what they read every day. So says a blog on The Santa Barbara Independent’s website. The piece drew our eyes because of a passing reference to Jackson. But it is a lengthy commentary by journalist Jerry Roberts on the Journalism Code of Ethics that makes is a worthy read.