Posted
1:17 PM
by Gene
In an editorial Sunday, the Waco (Texas) Tribune-Herald apologized for the way a predecessor paper covered the horrific 1916 lynching of a mentally impaired black man.What makes this different from your garden-variety Howie Hairshirt wailings? Perhaps the
Tribune-Herald thought the PC angle would justify it. But this biz has constantly used its high-and-mighty status to make mistakes that matter. From Hearst's War to Cronkite's Peace and beyond it's made mistakes that matter. No amount of apologizing can cure this biz' undying superiority and its enmity to its readers, two things that allow it to make mistakes with impunity.
J.B. Smith, in an account published in the Tribune-Herald last year, said that the Waco Morning News went even further, "describing the mob in heroic terms."Why not? The news biz has always LED it.