‘News you agree with?’ We used to call it propaganda…

Posted by John Small | Oct 6, 2021 | Small Talk

(Editor’s Note: In conjunction with the annual observance of National Newspaper Week [Oct. 3-9], we are reprinting the following “Small Talk” column that was originally published in the Jan. 10, 2019, edition of the Johnston County Sentinel.) Every week on the front page of this newspaper, we run the following famous quote from our third […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

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‘News you agree with?’ We used to call it propaganda…

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