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Floyd McKay

Floyd McKay

Floyd J. McKay, professor of journalism emeritus at Western Washington University, was a print and broadcast journalist in Oregon for three decades. He is also a historian and his new book, "Reporting the Oregon Story: How Activists and Visionaries Transformed a State," is published by Oregon State University Press. He resides in Bellingham and can be reached at floydmckay@comcast.net.

Recent Work

Lesson in laughter

Controversy this week over the current New Yorker cover, showing Barack and Michelle Obama in all the worst ways the paranoid right could imagine, proves two basic lessons from the history of...