Pro-KKK editor says Alabama paper is sold, but to whom?

LINDEN, Ala. — An Alabama newspaperman who drew widespread condemnation after a recent editorial embracing the Ku Klux Klan says he has sold his little weekly paper — but the new owner's identity and maybe even the sale itself are shrouded in doubt.

The Democrat-Reporter, whose longtime editor and publisher Goodloe Sutton once won praise from Oprah Winfrey for exposing local corruption, has published two differing stories about the deal, in which Sutton said no money has changed hands.

But he also says he can't recall if he's even met the buyer in person.

"My brain doesn't remember like it ought to remember sometimes," Sutton, 80, said Tuesday in the newspaper's tiny office. "I've talked to a lot of people."

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