[HairOfTheDog]

I appreciate your point about the tone of the obit under the circumstances..... but those obits are placed and paid for by the family, not written or edited by the paper.

[Puckster]

We can't deny, however, couldn't they have reprinted the facts with the obit? Or in the OpEd? Something, anything, but unchallenged?

[paulat]

I appreciate your point about the tone of the obit under the circumstances..... but those obits are placed and paid for by the family, not written or edited by the paper.

If you were the paper's editor, would YOU have taken the money?