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Better late than never Richmond

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Drip, Jul 17, 2009.

  1. Drip

    Drip Active Member

    The Times-Dispatch took a bold step that many others papers may soon follow.
    http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003994843
     
  2. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Well that changes everything.
     
  3. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Yeah. It's great they waited 50 years to say it though. Awesome, RT-D.
     
  4. Riddick

    Riddick Active Member

    that's just awesome.
     
  5. Mystery Meat II

    Mystery Meat II Well-Known Member

    Someone is NOT amused

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  6. Drip

    Drip Active Member

    And if I'm not mistaken, a statue of a man on a horse with the tail down means that he died in battle.
     
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  7. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    According to the AP story we ran:

     
  8. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Good ol' Wilder.
     
  9. Mystery Meat II

    Mystery Meat II Well-Known Member

    It's been 50 years. I don't think anyone who was in the News-Leader or Times-Dispatch newsrooms then are there now (though James Kilpatrick is still kicking at the senseless age of 193). Nobody there's going to have emotional ownership of the story because they didn't do anything to advocate Massive Resistance, they just happen to work at a paper that did 50-some years ago. So I'm not sure what Wilder's looking for -- other than a do-over of his disastrous run as Richmond mayor earlier this decade.
     
  10. bwright

    bwright Member

    And if I'm not mistaken, a statue of a man on a horse with the tail down means that he died in battle.
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    Interesting. I'd heard they put the horse's legs int the air when you die in battle .
    That may be british, though.
     
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  11. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Apparently no one's right. I always thought one hoof up was injured, two hooves up was killed, which is what's first in this story. But that changes depending on the source.

    http://ask.yahoo.com/20010112.html
     
  12. Frank_Ridgeway

    Frank_Ridgeway Well-Known Member

    The Lexington Herald-Leader did it five years ago:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28209-2004Jul4.html

    A Richmond story. The first time I brought my wife there, I turned onto Monument Avenue and told her that all the statues were of Confederate generals. She said, "Yeah? That one is holding a tennis racket." Arthur Ashe. I hadn't known about his statue.
     
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