The year I graduated from high school, federal judges subpoenaed the Watergate notes of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, in one of her more famous, but certainly not unusual moves, took possession of the notes. She said that she would go to jail for her reporters.
That's the difference between a female publisher with ethics and any publisher without.
That's how I remember Katharine Graham.
I'll remember Publisher Steven Kaylor as the male publisher who defended his reporter's right to videotape women's breasts without their consent and then show the video around the newsroom.
What's your most impressive media memory?
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My most memorable media moment was when Media General reporter Brian Ewing declared me to be a racist in a Reidsville Review front page, top fold article.
Ewing made the declaration on the claim of a former Media General editor who had I "outed" as a convicted felony arsonist.
Yes, Media General hired a violent felon as the executive editor of three of its newspaper. Your complaint about a chronic DUI reporter being on the Media General payroll seems trivial in comparison.
Is Media General some kind of magnet for deviants?
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