The Cox Newspaper Response

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The Cox Newspaper Response Posted by Elliot Jaspin on Feb 22, 2007 The responses by Julia Wallace and Andrew Alexander do not dispute a single fact in my book. Wallace claims she did not print the series on racial cleansing because of factual problems. What these problems are she never says. Alexander, on the other hand, argues that Cox spent a lot of time and money on the newspaper series, a fact that is absolutely true and completely beside the point. The uncontested facts are that the Cox editors openly discussed among themselves the Atlanta Journal-Constitution?s shoddy reporting but would not print what they knew. The AJC editors were told repeatedly that their coverage of the Forsyth racial cleansing contained numerous errors but to this day they have refused to correct the public record. Cox editors, who edited the series, had serious conflicts of interests, which they ignored. The top management could not bring itself to use the term ?racial cleansing.? In the end, the AJC did not print a single word from my series about racial cleansings in America even though the Forsyth County expulsion occurred on the newspaper?s doorstep. The public was ill-served.

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