http://www.mississippi-tribune.com/index.cfm Mississippi Tribune Avid Blogger en-us Copyright 2010 Mississippi Tribune Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:07:34 EST <p>‘My two cents’. That is the title of a column the Enterprise-Journal created last year. Now, speaking directly to you, Jack Ryan, editor to editor, I say: shame on you!</p><p>As the managing editor for your newspaper, you have the right to layout and publish your newspaper as you see fit. I am not challenging this right. Why would I? We layout and publish our newspaper as we see fit.</p><p>Ninety to ninety-five percent of what we print in the Mississippi Tribune each week, you will not find in your newspaper. Our newspaper is an African American newspaper, written, published, managed and owned by Black people. Your newspaper is like a lot of the daily newspapers in America, written, published, managed and owned by white people, and written from a white point of view.</p><p>I am writing this to make sure that you and your primary readers understand this. The Black community has always understood this. You control it. You write it. It is your story. From you it is “his-story” (history).</p><p>So, when you chose to publish that column in your newspaper, you were doing what you have a right to do. But, your ‘My two cents’ column is nothing more than a place where you can allow your readers to express their opinions and make public statements without accountability.</p><p>Remember, most of the statements and opinions in your column come directly from your newspaper online blog responses from your website. And, no one is required to identify themselves. They are able to speak freely and bravely without anyone knowing their names or where they live.</p><p>What cowards!!!!</p> http://www.mississippi-tribune.com/article/Blogs/Avid_Blogger/Open_Letter_to_Jack_Ryan_and_the_EnterpriseJournal_Part_II/18180 Lonnie Ross Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:10:00 CST http://www.mississippi-tribune.com/article.cfm?articleID=18180 <p>I had planned on writing about news and events that may impact the local community at a state or national level over the next several months. However, I have found a topic that I feel requires me to lend my observations and opinions here locally and immediately: Editor Jack Ryan and The Enterprise-Journal.</p><p>And I have so much to say to you, as a respresentative of the Black community down here in Southwest Misssissippi. This is going to take a lot of newspaper issues to get it all out. So, let me start with an introductory letter:<br />Shame on you.</p> http://www.mississippi-tribune.com/article/Blogs/Avid_Blogger/EnterpriseJournal_free_reign_in_southwest_Mississippi_is_over/18179 Lonnie Ross Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:54:00 CST http://www.mississippi-tribune.com/article.cfm?articleID=18179