I’m reading our coverage of the historic Greensboro Sit-Ins in February 1960. (They were actually referred to as the "sitdowns" in the paper.)
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Thirty years ago today some KKK and neo-Nazis killed marchers from the Communist Workers Party. We've written about the sad events of that tragic day many, many times. Some people think that we are keeping it alive, but that simply ref...
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We began a weekly feature today plotting all of the city's burglaries for the past week on a map.
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Someone called me the other day and asked why we were writing so much about the
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We published four full stories on our front page today.1. A rise in home burglaries2. 20 inmates to go free
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Remember this?Last summer, the Chandra Ann Levy case ushered in what some called a low in television journalism. Hour after hour the cable news networks featured lawyers, retired detectives and even psychics discussing Ms. Levy's disappearance.
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Should we have published the story about the anti-big-government march on the front page? How about the gay rights march? Front pager?
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Last time there was a big march in Washington, many readers thought the story should have been on the front page instead of page 2, where we published it.
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My newspaper columnRelated blog post.
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Want evidence that people think differently? Check out this list of readers’ all-time favorite books.
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My newspaper columnPrevious posts here and here.The liberal activist group ACORN is caught up in yet another scandal, and some people are trying to drag the news media down with it.
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Mark Binker made some checks about the local ACORN operation.Not much there so far, although the commenters aren't convinced.For the record, we published this story on page A8, with a front page promo. Given that the story quoted several people -- governm...
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The mass media is going to have to pay attention when you’ve got a million people, or whatever it turns out to be, marching. You can’t say that didn’t happen.That's Guilford County's Marcus Kindley talking about this weekend's march on W...
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Twelve people have e-mailed me since my column yesterday and all agreed with the decision not to publish. More evidence that the newspaper reading commenters are different from the blog commenters.
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We knew the location where the Neo-Nazis met, but we didn't publish it.
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