From the Quill
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.”