Feb. 4, 2009
Doctoral student William Gillis’s paper, "Say No to Busing and the Liberal Media: Backlash against the Louisville Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, 1975-1976," has been accepted for publication in a future edition of the journal Journalism History. It examines the anti-media rhetoric and activism of Jefferson County, Ky., residents involved in a movement to overturn a court-ordered busing plan to achieve racial integration in local public schools. The anti-busing campaign included a massive boycott of the area’s two major newspapers, which both supported the busing order.The paper originated in assistant professor Mike Conway’s J650 History and Philosophy of the Media class last spring.
