The Advertiser is not the only Southern newspaper that has confronted flaws in its coverage of race and civil rights. The Jackson Sun in Tennessee acknowledged in a story in 2000 that it had ignored the burgeoning civil rights movement in its coverage during in the 1960s. And The Herald-Leader in Lexington, Ky., published a front-page expose in 2004 admitting that the paper virtually ignored the civil rights movement. In the case of The Advertiser, the newspaper did not endorse lynchings, but expressed an understanding for why they happened. Its record of coverage of black people and civil rights was decidedly mixed.

Source: New York Times April 29, 2018 09:00 UTC