'It's about time': Mixed reaction after National Geographic admits 'racist' past in new issue
by Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune
Mar 27, 2018
4 minutes
"Race is the third rail, I get it," said Ron Stodghill, an associate professor at the University of Missouri's School of Journalism, when referring to National Geographic's April 2018 issue on the subject of race. "I feel (that) within this push to create content that is a little edgy and also 'sticky' for readers, that revisionism is trendy now, and you can start to see that where folks are second-guessing their own coverage and I guess there's valor in that, but it does raise other questions."
Stodghill is one of many to weigh in after the special issue was released online recently (the hard copy will
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