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- From: dgillmor@msen.com (Dan Gillmor)
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- Subject: Re: Princess Diana, Somalia, NY Times, history
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- Date: 21 Dec 1992 23:54:59 GMT
- Organization: Detroit Free Press
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- Greg Gross (galan@netlink.cts.com) wrote:
-
- : I was around during that period when we went through the process of
- : changing from being addressed as Negro to black. If you're trying to
- : suggest that the reason this happened is because some loose cabal of
- : white news editors said so, you're about to be thrown out for having been
- : caught *WAY* off base.
-
- : That semantic change was one that worked from the inside-out. For the
- : first time in our history in this country, we were addressing ourselves
- : by the term of our own choice. Newspapers gradually, even reluctantly,
- : recognized this and acknowledged our basic right to be addressed as we
- : choose to be addressed.
- : G.
-
- What's the thinking at your paper these days? We just published results of
- a survey showing that younger blacks prefer the term "African-American"
- while older folks prefer "black." I don't know whether we're going to
- change our style or not.
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