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The Improbable Life of the Arkansas Democrat - An Oral History (Hardcover)
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The Improbable Life of the Arkansas Democrat - An Oral History (Hardcover)
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The Improbable Life of the Arkansas Democrat collects over one
hundred interviews with employees of the Democrat, including
editors, report- ers, feature writers, cartoonists, circulation
managers, business manag- ers, salespeople, pressroom managers,
typesetters, and others, from the 1930s through the early 1990s,
when the Democrat took over the Arkansas Gazette after an
aggressive newspaper war. This new addition to Arkansas journalism
history provides vivid details about what it was like to work at
the old Democrat. August Engel, who led the paper with focused
devotion for forty-two years, was famous for his thrift, allowing
no air conditioning in the newsroom, and paying sub-par wages. In
spite of these conditions, there are tales here of dedi- cated
journalism professionals endeavoring to do good work. Readers who
remember the final acrimony between the two papers may be surprised
to learn that for many years the Democrat and the Gazette owners
operated under a tacit agreement of civility. The papers didn't
hire each other's staff, for example, and when a fire broke out in
the Gazette pressroom, Democrat management offered the use of its
press. Staffers recall that when the Gazette struggled with an
advertising boycott and reduced circulation during the Little Rock
Central High cri- sis because of its perceived progressive
editorial stance, which infuriated many Arkansans, the Democrat did
less than it might have to capitalize. The eventual newspaper war
saw the end of any semblance of civil- ity when the Democrat hired
an aggressive and infamous managing edi- tor named John Robert
Starr who began giving away classified ads, print- ing more news,
and changing publication from evening to morning. Through these
firsthand stories of those who lived it, The Improbable Life of the
Arkansas Democrat tells the story of how the number-two paper
became the unlikely number one, forever changing not only Arkansas
journalism but also Arkansas history.
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