Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became involved in managing a local political campaign. He soon discovered the inadequacy of the communications within the black community. When the two existing community newspapers-both white-owned-brushed off his recommendations for alleviating the problem, Miller decided to start his own newspaper. The first issue of the Banner appeared the following fall...
Mcanwhile, Miller had joined the U. S. District Attorney's office in Boston as an assistant U.S. Attorney. Intending to be the disinterested publisher of the Banner . he hired people to operate the paper while he continued working downtown. But the Banner ran into financial difficulties almost immediately, and Miller resigned from the U.S. Attorneys' office to devote full time to it. That the paper's editorials had been consistently attacking the Government's anti-poverty program (as being too paltry) only made his decision to resign easier. "I couldn't very well continue in the Government's employ," Miller...
...rather comfortably established in a building near the devastated Madison Park area, the Banner is not without its critics in the black community. Some have complained that the paper is failing in its role as a community leader, that it is not as militant as it should be. Others complain about the amount of advertising. Still others have gone so far as to hysterically accuse Miller of wanting to take over the community...
Miller says the Banner's supposed lack of leadership (militancy) is not as clear-cut as it seems. "The Banner can be a community leader only in a secondary sense. Our main job is to set the facts before the community, so that its decisions on different issues can be based on a knowledge of all the facts...
...Banner is certainly the most effective news medium operating in the black community, but as Miller readily admits, whatever influence it exerts is almost impossible to measure. "I would say that whatever influence we do have is indirect. We inspire people to act or take a certain stance on a certain issue." Miller says...