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Topic: Letters Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 5/7/2007 7:38:20 PM
Title: Subject: Incredibly tacky obit
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
From STEPHEN MILLER, obituaries editor, New York Sun: The New York Post never almost never runs full-blown staff written obits, yet here they are with what purports to be an obit - but is actually a circulation promotion!

They are hammering the New Yor Times for not running this guy's obit, but in reality nobody (that I can find, and especially including the NY Post) wrote an obit for Armin Schaper when he died in August.

This kind of thing - missing a deceased war hero - is not at all unusual,
especially if the family makes no attempt to alert the newspapers. Which is a fair guess in this case.

This is really an all-time low for the Post (at least from an obits perspective), quite a statement. [Permalink]


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