> If it does turn out to be fatal, then the media will probably hold up this info until his family (wife, children?) have time to be notified and don’t have to hear about it on a car radio or TV. <
Similar to the situation when Tim Russert died. The media outlets knew almost right away. But with the exception of Tom Sullivan on Fox News Talk, they all seem to have held the news until Russert’s family could be notified.
(Sullivan blurted out the story ca. 45 minutes before other outlets, then must have been told not to mention it again — because immediately after spilling the beans, he simply kept telling his audience to stand by for “breaking news.”)
First place I saw Russert died was on Drudge. And IIRC, the first post about it here referenced Drudge as being the source.
Prayers for this Man and his family.
I have personal experience of hearing of the death of a loved one on the radio.
My grandfather was the chief of homicide detectives for the county I live in now. He had a heart attack in 1965 and I was 14 at the time. My mother was his daughter and we heard about it on KDKA while traveling home from Nags Head, NC. We were on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Somerset.
She silently cried the rest of the way home and we had about an hour or so of traveling time to go.
Dad almost wrecked the car when it came on the news.