Did a Virginia Newspaper Run a KKK Ad on the Front Page?

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Did a Virginia Newspaper Run a KKK Ad on the Front Page?
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✅ In 2018, a Virginia newspaper published a copy of a KKK flyer on its front page as part of its reporting on KKK flyers being distributed locally. ❌ The document was not run as an ad but was intended to be an illustration for its coverage of the KKK.

They posted the whole flyer as if they were giving them free advertising,” Colonial Beach resident Betty Tate Thompson told. “It even had the number on flyer to contact the head of the KKK. Which I thought was totally ridiculous.” [...]

“That kind of shocked me, and I wrote [the editor] a very strongly worded email,” said [Police Chief Danny] Plott.

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