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Upcoming forum focuses on student free expression rights

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Mary Beth Tinker, the student suspended for wearing an armband to class to protest the Vietnam War, will speak about student free expression rights at 7:30 p.m. March 11 in a forum at Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium.

Tinker’s suspension became the basis for a lawsuit that went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which decided that student free expression rights do not stop at the classroom door. The logic expressed by the 1969 U.S. Supreme Court did not sway a later court in 1988, which curbed student free expression rights with its Hazlewood decision.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Hazelwood case, which originated in St. Louis.

Tinker will be accompanied by a panel of experts on First Amendment law, and they will discuss the impact of the Tinker and Hazelwood decisions.

The event, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), Gateway Journalism Review/St. Louis Journalism Review, Gateway Media Literacy Partners and the St. Louis Media History Foundation.

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Mannies wins lifetime achievement award

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St. Louis Beacon political reporter Jo Mannies accepted the John Michael McGuire Lifetime Achievement Award from United Media Guild on Jan. 25. Mannies was honored for more than 30 years of covering politics and policy in an intrepid, unbiased way.

McGuire, a longtime and beloved feature writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, died in 2009.

Also honored alongside Mannies was Christine Byers of the Post-Dispatch. She won the Terry Hughes Award, which is named in memory of the late Post-Dispatch columnist who wrote stories that were compassionate and revelatory. In her remarks, Byers cited Mannies as a role model. Byers also noted that a few years ago, when she was slated to be laid off as part of a downsizing, Mannies retired from the Post-Dispatch, thus saving her job.

Mannies said that Hughes, who died in 1991 at age 36 of breast cancer, had been a close friend. She said Hughes would have proud of Byers’ work, which included a series of stories about Anna Brown, a homeless woman who died in police custody.

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St. Louis media hall of fame to induct 17 new members

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The St. Louis Media History Foundation has announced its 2012 inductees to the St. Louis Media Hall of Fame, and all have made their mark on St. Louis journalism, advertising and public relations.

The inductees were elected by the St. Louis Media History Foundation board of directors from among dozens of nominees and were announced Jan. 29. They will be recognized at an induction ceremony scheduled for 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Feb. 20 at Copia Restaurant and Wine Bar, located at the intersection of 11th and Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis.

In alphabetical order, the 2012 inductees are:

• George Abel: Legendary television and radio broadcaster, actor and entertainer, a radio broadcaster, newsman for KSD-TV, co-star of the old Charlotte Peters Show, the Wranglers Club, and for years an announcer on Wrestling at the Chase on KPLR.

• Robert A. Cohn: Editor for 35 years of the St. Louis Jewish Light. He built the newspaper into one of the top Jewish newspapers in the country.

• Thomas Patrick Convey: First station manager of KMOX Radio, owner of KWK Radio, and sports broadcaster for the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Browns.

• Clarence “Harry” Fender:  Known by Baby Boomers as “Captain 11 on KPLR-TV,” a radio broadcaster for KMOX and KXOK.

• Ed Finkelstein: Longtime publisher of the St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune; founder of Union Communications, one of the first union-oriented PR firms in America helping organized labor tell its story; and founder of UNICOM•ARC.

• Don Marsh: Winner of 12 Regional Emmy Awards for his television news and anchor work for KTVI and KDNL, and producer and host of more than 1,600 public affairs programs, including a daily public-affairs program that airs on KWMU, St. Louis Public Radio.

• John McGuire: Longtime feature writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, champion of the underdog, and writer of colorful stories of people and offbeat things in life.

• James C. Millstone: Longtime St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter, editor and assistant managing editor at the Post-Dispatch, on the infamous Nixon “enemies” list, covered the civil rights movement, constitutional law and legal issues.

• Franklin Oros: A 30-year veteran of the ad business, worked for Savan, Creath Jacobsen, Gardner Advertising, an associate professor at Washington University and an advertising consultant.

• Bob Peirce: Former medical reporter with the Globe- Democrat and Louisville Courier Journal, made his mark as a communications strategist with Monsanto and Fleishman-Hillard.

• Wiley Price Jr.: The first African-American in the St. Louis region to host a radio show. He got his start in 1944 on WTMV in East St. Louis and had subsequent shows on KXLW and KSTL.

• Del Schwinke: Longtime advertising executive with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Geile-Leon Marketing Communications, and an adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

• Paul Siemer: Longtime partner in Stolberg & Siemer Public Relations, a former St. Louis Globe-Democrat reporter, a brilliant writer and senior executive with Fleishman-Hillard, where he led the Anheuser-Busch account for more than a dozen years, and helped grow FH into a global powerhouse.

• J.G. Taylor Spink: Publisher of the Sporting News from 1914-1962, and namesake of the highest award given by the Baseball Writers Association of America.

• Bill Tyler: Advertising instructor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and at St. Louis University, and an ad man with D’Arcy, Gardner Advertising and Pizza Hut.

• Harry B. Wilson: A former reporter and communications pioneer, a civic mover-and-shaker who also was instrumental in the global expansion of Fleishman-Hillard.

• Sue Ann Wood: A pioneer in St. Louis journalism, she was a reporter, city editor and managing editor for the Globe-Democrat (1955-1984) and editor at the Post-Dispatch (1984-1991). She was just the second female managing editor in the country of a major daily newspaper.

The St. Louis Media History Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization that researches and compiles St. Louis media artifacts and memorabilia, including hundreds of regional newspapers, photos, audio and videotapes, and equipment used at the advent of radio and television in St. Louis.

Much of the collection is housed in the St. Louis Media Archive at the St. Louis Public Library and the Missouri History Museum. The foundation accepts contributions to develop and expand its St. Louis media history collection, its website, local archives/repositories, oral histories and the St. Louis Media Hall of Fame. For more information, visit the foundation’s Facebook pages or its website, www.stlmediahistory.com.

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Post-Dispatch column touches nerve in reader

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Editor’s note: This letter to the editor was written in response to a column written by St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Bill McClellan titled “best price cialis

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To the editor:

I was startled to read Bill McClellan’s column, “Crime Czar,” in which he declared that the solution to a perceived crime epidemic was to “declare martial law and suspend the Constitution” and to mandate “racial profiling,” “frisking … young black men” without cause. He also thought it a good idea to jail African-American women, bridging both racial and gender bigotry.

Did McClellan bump his head on his way to work, or was he kidnapped and brainwashed by a roving band of fascists? And what was the Post-Dispatch thinking in publishing such poppycock?

The previous day, the paper hung out to dry bombastic media personality Kevin Slaten for saying “black voters are bigoted” for voting for President Obama. Fourteen front page column inches and a picture of Slaten to tell us that he was fired again for his lack of judgment.

Will McClellan face the same fate and front page spectacle? Certainly, McClellan’s remarks are far more egregious. Expressing one’s opinion is one thing, but advocating a return to the Jim Crow past when “an earlier generation showed us the way” (McClellan’s words), when every African-American was the victim of a segregated and unjust society, is a brutal thought.

McCellan sounds like an angry guy concerned about the changing demographics of his own neighborhood and wants to set back social progress 150 years. He should be reminded that the English government once practiced racial profiling, imprisoning folks because they were named McClellan.

Terry Beckmeyer

New Haven, Mo.

 

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