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Article: Is political correctness coloring the news? (Burlington Free Press reporter fired for reporting woman's comments at Burlington, Vermont City Hall meeting, March 1993)
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- Insight on the News
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- June 27, 1994
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A reporter fired after writing about reverse discrimination alleges that his editors were cowed by corporate efforts to push racial awareness.
The white woman was determined to be heard. She had waited in a long line of people for her turn at the microphone with a restless infant strapped to her chest in a baby carrier. What she wanted to tell her minority neighbors in the predominantly white community of Burlington, Vt., was at not all white people are racists--that racial misunderstanding sometimes can be a function of ignorance rather than malice.
"My name is Ellen Norton, and I am a fifth-generation Vermonter," she began, addressing the crowd of ...