Watchdog
under the watchtower
By Kelly
Yamanouchi. APRIL
9, 2001
"One of ten newspapers in the U.S. internment
camps, the Heart Mountain Sentinel was a newspaper with a
mission--not just to preserve democracy, but to rebuild it in troubled
times. The men and women who staffed the Sentinel knew first-hand
what internment was like. Under Bill Hosokawa's leadership, they
performed their job as professionally as circumstances would allow,
balancing their obligation to report objectively and their desire
to fight for their incarcerated community. They strived to make
the Sentinel an instrument for the free flow of ideas, even
as the civil liberties they depended upon were in a state of disrepair,
and even as their own government violated their constitutional rights."
