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    Post When Truth Mattered - The Akron Beacon Journal and the Kent State Shootings

    Wrapping up this book. When Truth Mattered is the compelling story of how a local newspaper, the Akron Beacon Journal, reported on the shootings and the aftermath, creating a truthful narrative that has endured, unchanged and unchallenged, for 50 years.

    Author Robert Giles, the managing editor who directed the newspaper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage, gives an unforgettable, first- person account of what took place on the Kent State campus and in his newsroom during that fateful time. Just as important, Giles links the meaning of the Beacon Journal’s truth-telling at Kent State with important lessons for journalism today—a welcome antidote in this poisonous era of alleged “fake news.”

    Excellent read. It is a shame to see the Beacon and the American Print Journalism become what it has.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    Wrapping up this book. When Truth Mattered is the compelling story of how a local newspaper, the Akron Beacon Journal, reported on the shootings and the aftermath, creating a truthful narrative that has endured, unchanged and unchallenged, for 50 years.

    Author Robert Giles, the managing editor who directed the newspaper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage, gives an unforgettable, first- person account of what took place on the Kent State campus and in his newsroom during that fateful time. Just as important, Giles links the meaning of the Beacon Journal’s truth-telling at Kent State with important lessons for journalism today—a welcome antidote in this poisonous era of alleged “fake news.”

    Excellent read. It is a shame to see the Beacon and the American Print Journalism become what it has.

    https://www.whentruthmattered.net/





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    Nice catch; thanks for posting that: I was 13 when that went down and remember it well. Journalism turned into "news" and when the the big three ended their News Divisions and moved them to the entertainment division, for the ratings, that signaled the beginning of the end. Of course the "internets" came in and finished the job. There really has to be away of bringing back print journalism without it costing an arm and a leg: there's nothing like going pout in the morning and picking up that Sunday paper.

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