North Carolina papers apologize — almost 120 years later

We’re coming a bit late to this, but it requires a mention. The News & Observer and Charlotte Observer recently produced special reporting packages about race riots that erupted in 1898. And both papers ran editorials that apologized for their part in the awful events of that year. The Charlotte Observer’s apology is here.
It echoes the remarkable 2004 apology from the Lexington Herald-Leader, which also possibly inspired a 50-years later apology from the Tallahassee Democrat in May of this year. So, yeah, it looks like we have a trend on our hands. And we think it’s a good one.
Editor & Publisher ran a great article that includes the pertinent details about the apologies, which ran Nov. 17.

This entry was written by Craig Silverman, posted on November 28, 2006 at 8:00 am, filed under Newspapers and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.
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