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| 'Times-Picayune' To Receive Honorary Degree |
| 2007-05-10 |
| Sorry, it's a *different* Times-Picayune. But very well deserved. NEW YORK How often does an entire newspaper receive an honorary degree? The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, La. soon will. The Web site of Loyola University New Orleans posted a release naming the recipients for this year's commencement, set for this weekend. Among them, "The Times-Picayune for heroic service to the city and region during and after Hurricane Katrina," the release states. Others receiving such honors are music legend and civil rights activist Julian Bond; musician and educator Ellis Marsalis, Jr.; New Orleans artist John T. Scott; and the advocacy and volunteer group The Women of the Storm. |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #4 ahhhhh yes, Julian Bond: At an event in North Carolina to mark Black History Month last February (2005), Julian Bond, the chairman of the NAACP, unleashed a blistering attack on the Bush administration and the Republican Party. Among other discourtesies, he compared President George W. Bush's judicial appointees to the Taliban and described former Attorney General John Ashcroft, not for the first time, as ``J. Edgar Ashcroft." "The Republican Party," Bond was reported as saying, ``would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side." (A slightly different version has Bond saying that the GOP's ``idea of equal rights is the American flag and the Confederate swastika flying side-by-side.") Such partisan bigotry from the chairman of a supposedly nonpartisan organization makes it easy to understand why for five years Bush refused to attend the NAACP's annual conventions. More of a mystery is why he changed his mind this year -- and why, rather than attempt to refute Bond's venomous caricature of his party, he seemed to accept it. Julian Bond, the Harry Belafonte of Civil Rights |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-05-10 08:04 |
| #3 3dc the musician is Marsalis. Bond's is for civil rights. |
| Posted by: Jacko 2007-05-10 07:57 |
| #2 How did the Rantburg Times-Picayune come to have the same name as my little home town paper? The New Orleans version actually did a remarkable job maintaining information flow following Katrina, and is a considerably better-than-average newspaper too. Surprisingly so for a city like New Orleans (way below average in so many ways). The financial news has been grim recently for the newspaper business in general. They could take a lesson from the Rantburg T-P - a good picture of Jayne Mansfield or Marilyn Monroe on the cover every day ought to give circulation a nice boost (it does wonders for MY circulation.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-05-10 07:13 |
| #1 Julian Bond a music legend? Not in my memory. Not in wikipedia. Hmmm... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-05-10 01:07 |