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Subject: Ex-Times Scribe (Now Dead) Canby Files Hope Obit
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:05:54 -0400
From: R. A. Hettinga <[email protected]>
To: Philodox Clips <[email protected]>
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To: "johnmac's living room" <[email protected]>
From: "John F. McMullen" <[email protected]>
From the New York Post -- http://www.nypost.com/business/1760.htm
EX-TIMES SCRIBE CANBY FILES BY FINAL DEADLINE
By KEITH J. KELLY
Dead men tell no tales - except at the New York Times.
The obituary of comedian Bob Hope, who died Sunday, carried the byline of
Vincent Canby - a Times writer who has been dead himself since 2000.
If there are any mistakes, obviously don't call the writer.
In fairness, the Times Web site, which posted the story last night, did
say that the writer had died in 2000.
Was it a post mortem obit? If not, was Canby able to collect a kill fee
before he left?
Joe Lelyveld, the Times interim executive editor - who passes the baton to
William Keller tomorrow - said it is not the first time that a writer has
"predeceased the subject."
We all want to give our colleagues - and fellow working stiffs - their
due, but isn't the practice a little unusual?
Usually when an editor sends someone to the morgue, he means the area
where long-ago clippings are stored. "He wrote the piece and we don't take
his name off it," said Lelyveld. "Notice our dead reporter did not report
that Bob Hope had died Sunday."
"He wrote the piece a few years ago," said Lelyveld, "and not much has
happened in Bob Hope's life since."
That ends that mystery. At least he didn't bury the lead.
Copyright 2003 NYP Holdings, Inc.
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