MMMM #479 -- SELMA and The DPS, Student journalists

     War's victors get to write the histories...most of the time.
     With SELMA now playing across the country, maybe it is time to take a second look at the Alabama Department of Public Safety's own official online history. 
     The almost 500 word document includes two sentences about the department's actions during the Civil Rights era, including their beating of protesters on The Edmund Pettis Bridge* in 1965. Here is is:

The names Birmingham and Selma were in the press daily

and were known not only in Alabama, but also across America and throughout the world. Public Safety was called on time and time again in response to the demonstrations, and its officers sought to maintain order amid strife.

 That's it. 48 words. Forget images like this:

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     I like the advice given to journalism students in a story in The Guardian.  Your student work can get you a job.

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The Washington Post published an interesting piece about journalism in 1873...a kind of back to the future view of reporters writing in great detail about politicians and generals kissing babies. And kissing ladies.


*The bridge is named after a confederate army officer.

[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a longtime regular feature of TimLennox.com]