Comments on: the big sleep… http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2009/05/03/the-big-sleep-3/ All Mickey, All the Time Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:21:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Ralph Roughton http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2009/05/03/the-big-sleep-3/#comment-129634 Ralph Roughton Sun, 03 May 2009 12:32:41 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/?p=3086#comment-129634 Mickey, I don't know if you were in Atlanta back in the days of Ralph McGill at the Atlanta Constitution (before the papers merged, it was the liberal one); and then he was followed by Eugene Patterson. They wrote courageously about civil rights in the 60s when we were still fighting to keep the status quo. And they were leaders of public opinion, using their powerful daily soapbox to proclaim what was right. Same with Edward R. Murrow on early TV in the McCarthy era. Some new voices like those need to emerge. Sticking with the locals, Cynthia Tucker tried, but she didn't have the clout, and now she's gone to DC. Jay Bookman writes some good columns and speaks truth; but again he doesn't have the clout that McGill and Patterson did. We need to be on the lookout for an emergent voice. Mickey, I don’t know if you were in Atlanta back in the days of Ralph McGill at the Atlanta Constitution (before the papers merged, it was the liberal one); and then he was followed by Eugene Patterson.

They wrote courageously about civil rights in the 60s when we were still fighting to keep the status quo. And they were leaders of public opinion, using their powerful daily soapbox to proclaim what was right. Same with Edward R. Murrow on early TV in the McCarthy era.

Some new voices like those need to emerge. Sticking with the locals, Cynthia Tucker tried, but she didn’t have the clout, and now she’s gone to DC. Jay Bookman writes some good columns and speaks truth; but again he doesn’t have the clout that McGill and Patterson did.

We need to be on the lookout for an emergent voice.

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