The Terrell Tribune, serving Kaufman County, Texas, ignored Barack Obama's victory in the U.S. presidential election, preferring, instead, to reserve their cover story for Jackson's victory over Schoen in the local county commissioner race.
The Obama presidential victory, however, wasn't pushed back to page A2, say, or A3, it wasn't included at all.
The decision has led to a protest outside of the Tribune's offices.
"That's what I wanted, a keepsake," said Lera Duncan, who was among the protestors. "And this was very disappointing to me."
Bill Jordan, the publisher of the newspaper, was unmoved by the protest, and was unapologetic:
"We run a newspaper, not a memory book service," he said. "We covered the local commissioner's race. We thought that was more important."
Here's a video from WFAA-TV recounting the news story.
UPDATE: While the paper is very locally-focused, on the day of the election the Tribune's cover story was about John McCain. The headline read "McCain makes Election Day stops."
Posted by P.M. Jaworski on November 10, 2008 in Media, U.S. politics
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