Posted on 07/28/2010 1:03:54 AM PDT by Islander7
Longtime Mississippi and New Jersey newspaperman Donald V. Adderton died Saturday. He was 61.
Adderton, most recently of Passaic, N.J., was a reporter, columnist and editor at the Sun Herald from 1994 to 2000, where his personal columns continued to run occasionally through recent years. Adderton in 2000 was named executive editor of the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, becoming the first black person to hold the top editor post at a Mississippi daily newspaper. Most recently, he served as assistant city editor and columnist for the Herald News in Passaic.
Adderton began his newspaper career as a paperboy for The Record in Englewood, N.J. He received a degree in radio, television and film from Shaw University. His journalism career included stints at United Press International, Asbury Park Press, CBS News, JET and Right On! magazines, the Savannah (Ga.) Morning News and the Hattiesburg American. He also had been journalist-in-residence at Jackson State University, where he taught newswriting and reporting; and he worked briefly for the Newark, N.J., Housing Authority.
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If you recall the efforts of Gomer Pyle . . . . er . . . Ronnie Musgrove to remove the Confederate Battle emblem from our flag, Adderton caused a furor when he strongly opposed the idea on simple common sense grounds.
RIP, Mr. Adderton, I always enjoyed your opinions, though we disagreed frequently.
RIP.
Was he a freedom-lover or a statist? (so I know how sad to be over his passing)
I guess he knew that the fight about the Confederate Flag was simply a symptom of the anger underneath, and that when the flag was gone, they'd only find something else about which to complain.
LOL! Yeah SuziQ, he saw them for what they were.
When the votes were tallied and a majority of black Mississippians voted to KEEP the state flag as is; all those screaming leftists just melted away.
He was the sort of man you would enjoy sharing a fishing hole and a cold beer with.
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