singled out and editor to be -- they singled out and editor to be the hiring person to go to state, theikeayne institute for journalism mid-80's,, so by the there were a lot of black faces at the free press. i do not know exactly how it would stack up national, but at some points in the 80's, the free press was doing quite well statistically, even in management. during the 1970's, there were no black faces in management at all , not even at a minor supervisory level of reporters like an assistant city editor or something. it took a long time. the papers might have talked a good game about minority hiring, but it was 12-15 years before things got serious at the free press. the free press was the liberal paper in town. luther: we were always somewhat envious of that. editorials,ite the so i did not share some of the editorial views, but i was a reporter at the time. johnson was an fantastic journalist. me and say,ays call what are you going to the right paper? when are you coming down to the right paper? i've tried to get the detroit news and make them more progressive. detroitou look at the