Word: delta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Karsell, a Nieman Follow, wrote this article at the request of the CRIMSON. He is Mahaging Editor of the Mississippi Delta Democrat-Times...
...Moderates. With segregation deeply imbedded in tradition, most Southern dailies have opposed trying to end it by "judicial fiat." Even liberal Editor Hodding Carter of the Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times, who opposes segregation on "moral grounds," feels that the Supreme Court decision has hurt the gradual progress of desegregation in the South by forcing both segregationists and desegregationists to "extremes." But now that the Supreme Court has struck segregation down, Tuskegee Institute reports that less than one-quarter of Southern dailies surveyed still flatly oppose the court's verdict. "Most papers," says one Louisiana newsman, "take the position...
...verdict of the voters came as a blow to some Mississippians. Among them: Editor Hodding Carter of the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times, an advocate of gradual desegregation. "Some day," said he last week, "curious and shocked Americans will ask history and each other who were these angry and fearful people who reacted so unwisely to a doubtful threat as to be willing to relinquish to politicians the decision as to whether their hard-gained public-school systems would endure or die . . . Neither do we believe that any county's school system should be permitted to be abolished...
Drop in Prestige. The drop in profits has been more than matched in most instances by a drop in prestige. To newsmen around the U.S., New York is no longer the road to glory. Said Hodding Carter, author, and editor of the Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times: "Young newspapermen would rather go to Washington or other cities. One big reason is that the provincial papers are paying better and putting out a much better product than they used...
...owner of one of the most successful newspaper monopolies in the U.S., Minneapolis Star and Tribune Publisher John Cowles has never been the slightest bit defensive about his papers' unchallenged position. Last week, before the annual convention of the national journalism fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi, Publisher Cowles not only argued that monopoly papers are among the best in the U.S.; they are also partly responsible for the fact that sensationalism in the U.S. press is becoming a less and less salable commodity (see below). Said Cowles: "As the best papers have grown, the poorer papers, the marginal papers, have...