Even stranger ... the Times does have a fairly active obit desk as well for prominent people, much like the wire services have many obits prewritten with a hole in the appropriate place for time and cause of death. As far in advance as some of these are prepared, hard to believe it wasn't also fact-checked. Rich
--- On Thu, 8/27/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TRADES] More bad newspapering To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 6:06 PM Bear in mind my ass. That is inexcusable, especially since this death was certainly not a surprise. I see I was misinterpreted... I meant that it *was ridiculous* for this many errors to be in the piece. Consider that when it was written, newspapers did still have copy editors! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
