The parent company of the Dallas Morning News, known here as the Snooze, of course, and parent company of not much else any more, wants to officially rename itself because of its founder's Confederate Army past. Wiki, though, doesn't mention relatives' slave-owning past.
A renaming of a company like Belo, though, is like a renaming of a company like, oh, Monsanto, Exxon or Philip Morris. This is putting lips on a pig when it won't address that, through things at the Snooze such as an editorial page editor who used to work at the Shrub Bush Library, it remains part of the problem in contributing to factors that continue to contribute to adjuncts to racism, at least, today.
Nor will it address, per the likes of a Jim Schutze, its news coverage's continuing sense of paternalism toward South Dallas.
Or real problems, like not selling newspaper ads.
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