
Margalit Fox on Life, Death, and the Best Job in Journalism
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The Spin Control of Death
The Times' obituary department was not involved in the handling of 9-11 deaths. Many high-profile people died on 9-11, but very few were famous in conventional terms. The Times did this marvelous series of little capsule obits on almost all of the 3,000-called portraits in grief. That was one of the great heartbreaks.
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