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Something called the Business and Media Institute writes on its Website: “…Diane Sawyer promised viewers they could wake up to ABC’s morning program to find her colleagues ‘taking your case‘ to insurance companies and ‘getting answers’ about unresolved Hurricane Katrina claims.”Yet on the February 20 show, when the answers weren’t to her liking, Sawyer’s colleague Robin Roberts presented a Democratic congressman attacking the industry as a champion of homeowners, and only mentioned her own compromosing emotional connection to the story at the end of her report.”

Did we mention Gov. Barbour is in no mood to wage war on State Farm?

The Jackson City Council voted 4-0 to award the city’s annual contract for legal advertising to The Mississippi Link. Last month, the city had to rebid the contract after the Link and The Clarion-Ledger submitted identical bids.

“Unlike a good neighbor, State Farm is no longer there, at least for many Mississippians,” proclaims The Sun Herald in a recent editorial.

Meanwhile, members of the Preservation Task Force gathered at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art Tuesday to award $98,000 in grants funded by the Sun Herald Preservation Fund

Joe Lee, publisher of the Daily Star and the weekly Democrat, gets to brag on his production staff after his newspapers in Grenada and Senatobia were recognized for print quality. “…To even ‘place’ in a printing contest with newspapers of all sizes…is quite an accomplishments,” he writes.

Most of America’s newsrooms have few minority reporters or editors despite the fact that minorities make up a third of the nation’s population, journalism professor and former newspaper editor says. Pearl Stewart is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, where she teaches advanced reporting. She also heads Stewart Media Consulting Inc. in Jackson.