washington, we turn to joseph torres, senior director at free press and co-author of the new york times bet seller news for all the people, the epic story of race in the american media and paul delaney, a reporter who covered the civil rights movement and a founding member of the national association of black journalists. paul, i want to start with you first. you worked for the atlanta daily world during the civil rights movement, the early days of the civil rights movement. talk a little bit about how the black newspapers covered the civil rights movement and run-up to the march on washington and how that may have differed with how mainstream newspapers covered it. well, the black papers, of course, did not have the resources, the money, the staff to adequately cover the movement. they did as best they could. in my own case, the atlanta daily world was against the movement. it was in atlanta. the owners were part of the black establishment in atlanta.
equator. people south of the equator. people who had been the victims of colonialization. now, when you transfer that to america, you get cities like new orleans, you get cities like baltimore, you get cities like detroit. baltimore doesn t have a bureau, i m hoping they open one soon, but the other ones do. i tell you, i saw a documentary last year on al gentlemjazeera on baltimore that felt more like the city i live in than anything i ve seen on american television. wow. you know, in the middle east we say al gentleman sejazeera i in touch with the street. well, there s a lot of street in america that a lot of cable is not in touch with. in their first week, their first night i saw them. they did a story on a woman who makes coats for homeless people. you know, in america, we drive right by the homeless. driving in washington today, how do the congressmen, how does the president drive down this street and not see what i see today?
johnson, president ford, president nixon, and there were lettering to him from these presidents and there were pictures of him and various celebrities who had visited the white house. it was astonishing. so tell me a little bit just quickly, how it came from being a newspaper story to actually becoming a movie d ziksin, who a great produce another made the spider-man movies, unfortunately she passed away before the movie who was finished. but she was the one who called me first and she wanted the rights to the story. and she got that and mr. allen was still living. and she also hired, soon thereafter, hired danny strong. a great screenwriter, an emmy award-winning scriptwriter, he
african-american president. i just think it s a very rich story. that s an amazing story, wil haygood, you ve gone from covering nelson mandala to telling the world about a butler that had a worldwide impact. thank you very much. great to be here. after the break, why i think you might be the key to saving media from its worst instincts. and 100% real cheddar cheese. but what makes stouffer s mac n cheese best of all. that moment you enjoy it at home. stouffer s. made with care for you or your family.
60s, been around before then. but there s no question that television s coverage of the civil rights movement, taking into people s living rooms what was happening, not some newspaper description or some highly censored or sanitized view, it brought the reality of the viciousness of the opposition to civil rights, particularly in the deep south, into people s living rooms. and then the eloquence and courage of dr. king and those who worked with him, such as john lewis, now a congressman, people could see and hear for themselves. television was the instrument. before television it was easy to deny how much violence there was. it was easy to overlook a leader such as dr. martin luther king. but with television, it brought it into people s living rooms. it changed the country, it changed the society and it changed history. now, there is a story that i ve heard, and you can correct me if i m wrong.