My latest newsletter: Maine's Bangor Daily News prints a heavily-edited version of #MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech.
Here's what they left out: https://www.readtpa.com/p/mlk-i-have-a-dream-speech-edit?sd=pf
And you wonder why so many people believe the speech's key takeaway is that we should all just judge people by "the content of their character," rather than address the specific concerns laid out.
Additionally...
Here's what that paper ran on the day of King's speech...
And you wonder why so many people believe the speech's key takeaway is that we should all just judge people by "the content of their character," rather than address the specific concerns laid out.
And finally, this is something the paper has published before. I found a link to a 2020 article that was word-for-word the same, right down to the "we should take a step away from our divisive politics" line, with the only difference being that it said "As we mark the "91st birthday" instead of "94th birthday."
And you wonder why so many people believe the speech's key takeaway is that we should all just judge people by "the content of their character," rather than address the specific concerns laid out.
@parkermolloy From Wikipedia: The Bangor Daily News "has been owned by the Towle-Warren family for four generations; current publisher Richard J. Warren is the great-grandson of J. Norman Towle, who bought the paper in 1895. Since 2018, it has been the only independently owned daily newspaper in the state."
Depends on your definition of "independent." The rest, anchored by the Portland Press Herald, are owned by Reade Brower, a Maine printer, not by an out-of-state chain.
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