On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 04:40:33PM -0500, Carrol Cox wrote:
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> Michael Perelman wrote:
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> > Weren't there a sizable number of small town progressive papers in the
> > past? Not the majority, of course.
> >
> >
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> I can remember "small town" newspapers from Benton Harbor, St. Joseph,
> Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor, & Marcellus Michigan & from South Bend Indiana.
> All reactionary. A century or so ago there was a small town progressive
> newspaper someplace in Kansas, I don't remember the town. Again I cite
> Upton Sinclair, _The Brass Check_, for a pretty good account of "the
> media" as they existed circa 1900.
>
> The Bloomington Pantagraph was progressive during the Civil War,
> advocating that one Confederate pow be shot for every black union
> soldier the confederates shot. (Lincoln's campaign manager, David Davis,
> came from Bloomington, his descendants, along with the Stevensons, later
> owned the paper -- and Davis was probably one of the movers-and-shakers
> in making the Republican party a conservative party within a decade or
> two. The last local owner, David Merwin, was related to both the Davis's
> and the Stevensons. His last act as owner was to defeat a union by
> speaking of the great advantages of personal relations between owner &
> staff. It later turned out that he had already planned to sell it to the
> owner of the SF Chronicle, who wanted it as a wedding present for his
> nephew or something like that.)
>
> Carrol
>
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