The little paper that could
November 28th, 2008 at 08:52am Jennie Pollock
Most people are not thankful for their newspapers. We know that.
But journalists around the world are thankful for a guy like Tom Gish, who died this month. He owned The Mountain Eagle in rural Whitesburg, Ky., and he stuck to his hard-hitting reporting despite being so hated that in 1974, police paid someone to burn down his place and he still kept on publishing under the slogan “It Still Screams!”
The paper he owned with his wife covered poverty and poor mining practices alongside the small-town staples of birthdays and obituaries.
His son, Ben, is the editor now.
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