Talk:Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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Actually, the Arkansas Gazette was the oldest continuously published newspaper west of the Mississippi. The Gannett Corporation sold it to the rival Arkansas Democrat in 1991, and the Democrat then combined the names of the two papers. No one was fooled though...the Arkansas Democrat Gazette continues to champion the same conservative editorial positions it did prior to the merger, although it now claims to have inherited the mantle of the Gazette and its Pulitzer for its coverage of the 1957 Central High Crisis...ironic, given that the news editor's father was a prominent opponent of the desegregation of that school!
