DISQUS

berial · 1 year ago

Might be some but I didn't see any 'bad' press about State (or Southern though lets admit it neither of us pay attention to Southern) involving Obama becoming president.

Tatoe · 1 year ago

The Press will only tell you what they want you to hear. It's a mixture of what sells and what they gain and/or are interested in. There are a million stories just like the one you cite hear where the press has manipulated "facts" and used perception mixed with greed in order to "make" news. As you stated above the facts don't support the label that Ole Miss is now stuck with, but nonetheless the press made it happen. The only reason the new Ole Miss-Obama story is in play is because the media was on location in greater than normal numbers looking for this story at OM before it even happened. Why were they on location in greater than normal numbers? Simply because of the Meredith issue. Making news is what the media is all about.

jim13 · 1 year ago

The biggest reason there were riots when Ole Miss integrated was the governor made an ass out of himself nationally by refusing to obey a Federal Court order and openly challenged the President by ordering the National Guard to prevent the integration. The President responded by nationalizing the Guard, which removed them from Ross Barnett's control, and sent in the 101st Airborne
Division to enforce the court order. Barnett was stupid and did great damage to the State. In my opinion he incited the riot that occurred.

When the other schools integrated the Governor, Paul Johnson, didn't get in the way. I was at State when it was integrated and except for the coverage by the media, the school opening and semester registration typical the others in which I was a participant.