The lake at Presley’s Outing in Jackson County is closed until late next week while state environmental and health agencies test the waters as a possible source of a bacterial infection that has struck at least three people.
A Mississippi Press reporter and photographer were denied access by park owner J.P. Presley who, not surprisingly, had no comment.
The Daily Journal in Tupelo declares itself northeast Mississippi’s paper of record and vows to crank up the coverage of politics leading to the August primary and November general election.
From The Washington Post: Simeon Booker was at Ole Miss (the year James Meredith was admitted to the university as its first black student). He knew the dark, kaleidoscopic danger of the place. He had been in Mississippi — at that courthouse in Sumner to cover the Emmett Till murder trial. Till — a 14-year-old black youth murdered by two white men in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a woman who was married to one of the men — was Booker’s damn story, and he knew it, his fingerprints on the reporting of it from the very beginning. They all knew it, every one of the reporters, the ones from the white press and certainly the ones from the Negro press.
From The Los Angeles Times: Charles Tisdale purchased an innocuous, nearly defunct weekly newspaper in 1978, transformed it into a strident voice for African Americans and poor whites in Mississippi, then endured the wrath of those who wanted to silence the paper — and him.
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