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8:00-8:01 Billboard:
Nader Calls Kerry a "Puppet" For Israel, Charges
Dems With"Mini-Watergate"
Whiteout Mea Culpa: Kentucky Paper Apologizes for Lack of
Civil Rights Coverage 40 Years Ago
8:01-8:06 Headlines
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:46 Nader Calls Kerry a "Puppet"
For Israel, Charges Dems With"Mini-Watergate"
As John Kerry names John Edwards as his running mate, the
runoff for president is set - Four candidates who supported
the war in Iraq. We'll speak with independent presidential
candidate Ralph Nader who has just released a new book called
"The Good Fight". We speak with him about being
kicked off the ballot in Arizona, why he isn't running as
a Green Party candidate and charges that his candidacy will
help Bush win reelection.
- Ralph Nader, one of the country's leading consumer advocates.
In 2000, he was the Green Party candidate for president.
He is running again this year, but this time as an independent
presidential candidate, though he recently got the nomination
of the Reform Party. He has a new book out called The Good
Fight: Declare Your Independence and Close the Democracy
Gap. Link: www.votenader.org
8:46-8:58 Whiteout Mea Culpa: Kentucky Paper Apologizes
for Lack of Civil Rights Coverage 40 Years Ago
INTRO: The Lexington Herald-Leader newspaper in Kentucky
issued a front-page apology for failing to adequately cover
the civil rights movement four decades ago. We speak with
the author of the newspaper's mea culpa and a retired social
worker who took photographs of Lexington civil rights activism
in the 60s that didn't made it into the Lexington Herald or
Lexington Leader.
On July 4th, a front-page article in Lexington Herald-Leader
newspaper in Kentucky read: "It has come to the editor's
attention that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the civil
rights movement. We regret the omission."
In a series of articles titled "Front-page
news back-page coverage" the Herald-Leader issued
an apology for failing to adequately cover the civil rights
movement four decades ago. The correction marked both Independence
Day and the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964.
The mea culpa notes that the omissions by the city¹s
two newspapers, the Lexington Herald and the Lexington Leader,
weren't simply mistakes or oversights - The papers' management
actively sought to play down the movement.
As one former Herald editor put it: "The management's
view was that the less publicity it got, the quicker the problem
would go away."
The paper's apology says that the inadequate coverage "hurt
the civil rights movement at the time, irreparably damaged
the historical record and caused the newspapers' readers to
miss out on one of the most important stories of the 20th
century."
- Linda Blackford, staff writer for the Lexington Herald-Leader
who researched and wrote the paper's apology.
- Calvert McCann, retired social worker, took photographs
of Lexington civil rights activism as a high school student
- some were recently published in Herald-Leader.
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
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