Boston Globe
Had
Barry Bingham Jr. been publisher of the Courier-Journal in Louisville for the past 20 years, "one can easily imagine that his newspaper would now be viewed as a city on a hill surrounded by a flooded landscape," write
Susan Tifft and
Alex Jones. "He would not have pounded a desk or shaken his fist, but stated with a brutal civility that the newspaper industry had been founded on principles of public service and that those principles must come first, even at the expense of profit margins."
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"I have had an incredibly fortunate life," Bingham said in January (C-J)