News conference creates huge media buzz
The State
by JOSEPH S. STROUD
People magazine was there. So was the Economist. So were all three networks, CNN, and virtually every local television station from Charleston to Atlanta.
So were the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Edgefield Citizen News and the new student newspaper at Allen University.
The story of Essie Mae Washington-Williams’ secret past proved irresistible to the biggest swarm of media to descend on Columbia since the Confederate flag came off the State House dome more than three years ago.