Rush Limbaugh quit his ESPN NFL pre-game show because the network couldn’t take the heat it caught after Limbaugh said Philadelphia Eagles QB Donovan McNabb is overrated and there’s a media conspiracy afoot to make sure a black quarterback is successful. (What kind of drug was Rush on when he came up with that idiotic idea?) But El-Rushbo was right about one thing: McNabb sucks. So bad that Eagles coach Andy Reid considered pulling him from Sunday’s games. The Eagles are 3-3, but McNabb deserves almost none of the credit for that.
Mississippi native Donna Ladd and partner Todd Stauffer founded the Jackson Free Press in 2002 in the capital city. The heavily awarded local newspaper did many investigations heralded across the state and nation and served as a paper of record due to its diversity, inclusion, in-depth reporting and deep connection to readers and dedication to narrative change in and about Mississippi. In 2022, the nonprofit Mississippi Free Press, founded by Ladd and JFP Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin in 2020, purchased the journalism assets and archives of the Jackson Free Press. A Google grant through AAN Publishers enabled Newspack's integration of the JFP archives into the Mississippi Free Press website to become part of a more searchable archive of recent Mississippi history and essential journalism.
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