Posted on 01/02/2010 10:43:04 AM PST by Kaslin
Former Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell, one of the first women to lead a major U.S. newspaper, died in an accident involving an automobile in New Zealand on Saturday, according to her family. She was 68.
Howell was traveling in New Zealand on vacation with her husband, C. Peter Magrath, at the time of the accident. Her stepson Nick Coleman said Howell suffered fatal injuries when struck by a vehicle. She lived in Glen Echo.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Ex-Washington Post Ombudsman, Who Recognized Liberal Bias, Killed in New Zealand(Newsbusters.com
RIP.
This shows that the editors of Wa Po obviously did not like her ...
And she was right about Opus (Bloom County) ...
headline lies right to the end.
“dies” is a lie by ommision. “was killed” is more accurate.
Story doesn’t say if it was hit & run or if the driver stopped & is helping police. That is a rather KEY piece of information.
Have you ever seen one that is killed in an accident come out alive?
You are right. They left how the details of the “accident.”
That royally sucketh.
Maryland PING plus.
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