Editor and Publisher reports Gulf Coast newspapers are walking a “tightrope” between deserved recognition of Hurricane Katrina on the anniversary of the storm and overplaying the still-fresh disaster on their front pages.
Sun-Herald political editor Geoff Pender recently sat down for question-and-answer session with Gov. Haley Barbour on the upcoming one year anniversary of Katrina and the progress made on the Gulf Coast and in South Mississippi.
Someone named John Carroll, an alleged educator, scribing in something called The Phoenix, what we can only assume is a paper that must be offered for free before anyone will take a read, manages to insult everyone from his own state’s governor, to Trent Lott, to the very late Strom Thurmond, to just about the entire populace of Mississippi. And, oh, the Pascagoula reporter who covered Mitt Romney’s visit to the Gulf Coast. We can’t deny politicians make good targets, but classifying the entire state as “Low Achiever” is rather tired and unimaginative.
For those who still doubt the learned, very talented nature of Mississippi, we always enjoy recommending the Mississippi: Believe It! Website as the path to enlightenment.
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