The Myth:
Mississippi, Believe It! campaign to be featured at USM

The Mississippi, Believe It! campaign will be featured at the University of Southern Mississippi. Rick Looser, chief operation officer of The Cirlot Agency, will be the keynote speaker at the University of Southern Mississippi School of Mass Communication and Journalism Spring Banquet for 2007.

Mississippi, Believe It! is a public service campaign designed to inform and educate the citizens of Mississippi, as well as the rest of the country, about the people, aspects and facts associated with the state of Mississippi.



The Reality:
In Turnabout, Infant Deaths Climb in South

NY Times by ERIK ECKHOLM
Published: April 22, 2007

HOLLANDALE, Miss. For decades, Mississippi and neighboring states with large black populations and expanses of enduring poverty made steady progress in reducing infant death. But, in what health experts call an ominous portent, progress has stalled and in recent years the death rate has risen in Mississippi and several other states.

The setbacks have raised questions about the impact of cuts in welfare and Medicaid and of poor access to doctors.....

Read the rest of the story here.