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V.I.V1 Lwip.•=1=.11.■ .1.1.1 DO ANII AL IAA A selection of this month's best front pages and headlines from the Miami News-Record, McAlester News-Capital, Johnston County Capital- Democrat and on the facing page the Marietta Monitor and Wagoner Tribune. 10 THE OKLAHOMA PUBLISHER, DECEMBER 2011 What's written in newspapers becomes history Clark's Critique BY TERRY CLARK, Journalism Professor, University of Central Oklahoma [email protected] As another year heads to the history books, I hope you'll consider the impor- tance of what you do, and make the new year's top resolution to tell more stories, to continue to cover as much of the news as possible. It's easy to forget the importance of what newspapers do, beyond just the immediate impact and rush of covering the news. What concerns me most about newspapers cutting printed news coverage is that so much important information is lost forever. I'll admit that personal events this year have brought this home. My favorite uncle, Comanche, Okla., native Michael Henry Clark, a World War II and Korean War Navy combat veteran, died in Santa Fe. I learned much about my family and Oklahoma from him, and now he and his stories are gone forever. I'm thankful that the Comanche Times carried the obit I wrote, free of charge, for those few alive who still remember him, and for history's sake. Why? Someone wrote that journalism is the first draft of history. I contend it may not just be the first draft — but the only draft — what you cover in your papers becomes Oklahoma history. This was brought home to me while working on a different story. I recently contacted the Oklahoma History Center for help and Angela Spindle, newspa- per department supervisor of the research library at the OHS, gave me the facts I needed. Did you know the OHS newspaper col- lection, located in the Oklahoma History Center, consists of more than 4,000 files — about 88 percent of the papers published in Oklahoma since the first, the Cherokee Advocate, in 1844? More than 32,000 rolls of newspaper microfilm in the research library are available for research. The cen- ter continues to add about 900 rolls of film a year of current and missing titles to the collection, Spindle said. She said the state probably had about 5,000 newspapers in total since those early years, and it's thanks to Oklahoma news- papers that we have them at all. Members of the Oklahoma Territorial Press Association organized the Oklahoma Historical Society in 1893, anticipating statehood and recognizing the newspapers' role in recording and preserving Okla- homa's history. So my wish for you is that you devote more time this coming year to telling stories, recording the lives and deaths and events in your communities — especially those veterans' stories. You don't have much time — about 1,500 of them die every day. Like my uncle and my oldest cousin, a Korean War veteran who died this month, their stories, and their history is gone for- ever, if you don't tell it. LOOKIN 'EM OVER: "Less than six months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a 120-pound lanky lad from Bartlesville was drafted into the U.S. Army to help defend the country's freedom. Today, Lee Stone still remembers the turbulent times following the Dec. 7, 1941, surprise attack that drew America into World War II." That's Emile Droege at the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise telling such a story, along with a Becky Burch photo. See what I mean about history? Or Dylan Goforth's story on a Pearl Harbor survivor, in the Muskogee Phoenix: "Three words on a license tag tell a signifi- cant part of Jim Gailey's life: 'Pearl Har- bor Survivor.' / "Gailey said one of those words is the most important: 'It's better for me that it says 'survivor' and not 'victim.'" And the Coalgate Record Register fea- tured four local brothers who served in the military. Covering current veterans? Here's Christina Campbell's lead in the Ft. Gib- son Times: "It is a country the size of Texas, with brilliant blue skies, soaring snow-capped mountains, and rocky, bar- ren deserts featuring an almost lunar land- scape. / "The majority of the country's 29 million people will tell you they want what everyone else in the world wants: A safe home, a good job and opportunities for their children. / "This is Afghanistan." More good writing. Rachel Patterson of the McAlester News-Capital visited death row. Her lead: "The Oklahoma State Penitentiary, in McAlester, is a world of its own, where men live in cement rooms no bigger than most people's bathrooms and some people's closets." W.R. Wallace at the Frederick Press, on a school board story. Lead: "In a scene reminiscent of an Indiana Jones movie, Frederick Superintendent Tony O'Brien began carefully removing the top of a cop- per sealed time capsule during Monday night's school board meeting." That board also heard a woman com- plain about textbooks being out of date and detrimental to African American and Hispanic students. I think there's a state- wide story here. Stories waiting to be told in your area: Miranda Fleming at the Guymon Daily Herald photographs a local vet ringing bells for the Salvation Army. At the Edmond Sun, Mark Schlachten- haufen reported on high school students pledging not to "TWD." (Text While Driv- ing) Here's his lead: "A young man's life was forever changed when someone was texting 'Where r.' / "A young woman has to live with the knowledge that her sister Continued on Page 11