Thanks for articulating everything wrong with that Guardian Obit. Over 70 years of repressed media and professional homophobia against Philip is reaching a fevered pitch. How did Charles Moore miss this kind of bashing?
The obit was extraordinarily graceless and tasteless. Whatever you think about PJ, or anyone for that matter, you don't write something like this days after a perspn's death. Imagine Johnson's life companion waking up this morning and reading this about the man he loves. Imagine the 102-year-old sister reading this about her sibling.
I don't care how awful you think someone is, out of respect for those who are in pain at that person's passing, you don't celebrate it right in their faces mere days after the event. I hope the Guardian hands this obit writer his pink slip.
And I'm writing the Guardian to tell them I think so.
Thanks for writing such a considered response, Paul.
though a bit tasteless, an obituary can be, by all means a bit pejorative. And if you want to see what his life partner or his sister will think-they can see all the other obits that have written good stuff about him and think that it was just the Guardian that published this kind of obituary - all in all its kinda relative.
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Thanks for articulating everything wrong with that Guardian Obit. Over 70 years of repressed media and professional homophobia against Philip is reaching a fevered pitch. How did Charles Moore miss this kind of bashing?
The obit was extraordinarily graceless and tasteless. Whatever you think about PJ, or anyone for that matter, you don't write something like this days after a perspn's death. Imagine Johnson's life companion waking up this morning and reading this about the man he loves. Imagine the 102-year-old sister reading this about her sibling.
I don't care how awful you think someone is, out of respect for those who are in pain at that person's passing, you don't celebrate it right in their faces mere days after the event. I hope the Guardian hands this obit writer his pink slip.
And I'm writing the Guardian to tell them I think so.
Thanks for writing such a considered response, Paul.
liberty bell,
though a bit tasteless, an obituary can be, by all means a bit pejorative. And if you want to see what his life partner or his sister will think-they can see all the other obits that have written good stuff about him and think that it was just the Guardian that published this kind of obituary - all in all its kinda relative.
so I guess the NYT obit http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/31/opinion/31stevens.html
now adds to the post-mortemism so called 'expose'
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