Posted by
Bruce Armstrong on Thursday, September 28, 2006 11:17:37 PM
Sometimes you find the best / most entertaining information in the least likely places.
I was reading a Q&A session on the New York Times website with Bill McDonald, obituaries editor at the Old Gray Lady. (Wonder if he has the OGL's obit ready yet?) In answer to a reader's question about whether or not Times staffers get preference for an OGL obit when they die, McDonald had this to say:
"One of the worst things a news organization can be accused of is maintaining a double standard. If you're guilty of that, your credibility is gone." (Bill McDonald, Talk to the Newsroom, page 2 of 9.)
Irony, sweet irony, thy name (for today, anyway) is Bill McDonald.