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...Clarion Call. For the first time since his death, Church's place in U.S. painting is being reassessed with a large exhibition at the Albany Institute of History and Art.* Historically, Church ranks as virtually the last of the Hudson River School. A pupil of Thomas Cole, he took as a personal command Emerson's clarion call to the American artist to reveal the hidden spirituality of the universe, to create art worthy of a new continent. Most of his generation traveled to the Old World; Church forayed into the New. Instead of Europe, he visited Ecuador, hacked...
...Close to Criticize. Exasperated at not being able to get to see Governor Paul Johnson, Los Angeles Times Reporter Jack Nelson asked the Clarion-Ledger's political reporter Charles Hills why he didn't raise some "hell" with the Governor. "Oh, no," replied Hills, "I worked so hard for him in the campaign I can't afford to criticize...
...Jackson press to show such solicitude for the health and welfare of a Kennedy was novel indeed. The biggest papers in Mississippi, with a combined circulation of 120,000, the morning Clarion-Ledger and the afternoon Daily News indulge in more Yankee-baiting and race-baiting than any other papers in the South. During the Watts rioting, Ethridge wrote: "What the cops need . . . are plenty of flamethrowers . . . Nothing could stop bloodthirsty savages quicker than reducing them to cinders...
Unabashed Boosterism. Many Southern papers now cover local racial news with considerable accuracy and balance. The Jackson papers, which were founded in the 1800s, have not changed their attitude in half a century. Bob Hederman, who publishes both papers, and his cousin Tom Hederman, who edits the Clarion-Ledger, are descendants of the powerful Jackson family thai bought the Clarion-Ledger in 1920, took over the Daily News in 1954, and has always quickly crunched any competition. The Hedermans also own the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, a sizable chunk of local real estate and an interest in TV and radio...
...addition to championing segregation, the two Jackson papers practice a boosterism that would make a Bab bitt blush. The Clarion-Ledger regularly runs a Page One color photo of a local maiden or matron gushing something like "It is patio time again." The Daily News runs a front-page cartoon of a donkey named Hinny who brays verse on behalf of some local cause: "It's the first night for football in the high schools of the state/ And ol' Hinny hopes each one'll win its game-won't that be great...