This has nothing to do with Mississippi, per se, but we couldn’t resist: The Sunday Washington Post posits what’s on a lot of minds: Is W the worst president ever? Fans of Richard Nixon and Herbert Hoover certainly hope so.
Longtime newspaperman Aaron Parsons, who, as publisher of the Daily World in Louisiana, helped bring St. Landry Parish out of bankruptcy, died Thursday at 76. He was a native of Iuka and a graduate of Mississippi State University. He formerly worked in the advertising department of The Daily Corinthian.
Flora Mayor Charles Scott Greaves is making his case for smoke-free restaurants and bars in the pages of his local newspaper, reports The Clarion-Ledger. Interesting as that fact is, the C-L declines to mention the actual name of the newspaper.
American Journalism Review has an interesting excerpt from “The Race Beat,” which chronicles the civil rights struggles of the past half century. Mentioned are the likes of Hodding Carter and Bill Minor, among others.
Author and former Southern Living feature writer Ben Brown joins BeachBlvd magazine as an editorial consultant. The magazine, published by the Sun Herald, will debut Jan. 23 as a bimonthly upscale lifestyle magazine…
Hattiesburg American executive editor Kathleen Williams asks: “What is it about college students and college newspapers? For some inexplicable reason, more than a few college students think it is fine and dandy to trash newspapers that have articles they don’t agree with.”
Delta Democrat Times publisher John Clark on Hodding Carter III, who recently received the Burton Benjamin Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement in New York: “In his acceptance speech, Carter honored the journalists who risk their lives to cover the news around the world and talked about the early days in his career when he carried a gun because he was terrified, a fear, he said, that no longer exists in America.”
Northside Sun publisher Wyatt Emmerich on trapping critters in his North Jackson backyard: “You gotta love living in Mississippi. We live in the center of the biggest city in the state and we have now trapped rabbits, possums, foxes, raccoons and wild cats in our animal-friendly, have-a-heart trap. The wild cat was precisely that: a wild cat. We’re still going to shoot for a skunk and an armadillo.”
The Boston Globe reports Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who has assiduously courted evangelical Christians in preparation for a probable 2008 presidential campaign, was thrust into an awkward position yesterday after a Mississippi newspaper reported that he said he had the backing of the Rev. Jerry Falwell and other religious leaders.
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