Monday, April 9, 2007
News Elliott Jaspin and the AJC catfight continues
Posted by Scott Freeman on Mon, Apr 9, 2007 at 3:42 PM
John Sugg's March 7 CL cover story went into detail over how the AJC refused to publish a series on racial cleansing that was written by Elliot Jaspin, a member of the Washington bureau of Cox Newspapers. Jaspin turned the series into a book, Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America, that details his behind-the-scenes battles with AJC editors.
And the fur hasn't stopped flying. In an interview with the History News Network, Jaspin again criticizes the AJC for not running a series that other Cox newspapers ran because it happened to criticize the AJC's coverage of racial cleansing in Forsyth County.
And Jaspin even issues a Clint Eastwood-like challenge to the paper.
Here's the money quote:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) did not run the series because they said I had not proven my case. Those who read the book can make their own judgment.My personal feeling is that the editors in Atlanta were unwilling to face their own past. The AJC has consistently defended the fable that I mentioned above and, by not running the series, they were defending the fable again. In this they failed themselves and their readers.
I can understand why they did it. As a journalist I cannot condone it. Newspapers must tell their readers the truth no matter how difficult that may be at times. To do any less, contaminates the public debate.
Are you worried about being fired? Being sued?
Go ahead, make my day.
By the way, Bitter Waters is the HNN book of the month.
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