i should not imagine a fear of paid notices, should prevent a systematic
inclusion of NYTimes obits, which are assumed notable.
especially with the reference generator doing all the formatting.
no one is doing this; the article mentions 25% female among these. i.e. we
don't include reliable sources even to the extent they present less of a
gap than we do.
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case <
dancase(a)frontiernet.net> wrote:
At least in the
USA, we have to be cautious about "what is an obituary."
Newspapers also
run "death notices" which (both in print and >online) look
much like obituaries, but are actually paid advertisements. I'm not even
certain that the terminology ("obituary"=editorial, >"death
notice"=paid
ad) is consistent across news outlets, I'm just reflecting what I learned
from the specific papers I dealt with after >my dad died.
Writing as someone who once got paid to write newspaper obits, “paids”
are, in print, always in [[agate type]], like sports boxscores; obits look
like any other story in the same newspaper.
However, textwise, the distinction may be blurring as newspapers cut back
on expenses (such as the newbies and interns who cut their journalistic
teeth writing obits. Just earlier this week, a young coworker of my wife’s
died rather suddenly; when I saw his obit in our local paper I figured they
had just printed the text the funeral home sent along since it read like a
paid, with all sorts of flowery, non-NPOV language that we never included
in obits back in the mid-‘90s regardless of what the funeral home said in
the fax, no mention whatsoever of the cause of death, and mentions of a
rather wide scope of survivors (the main reason for paids, as families of
the decedents usually want to mention relatives outside the scope of the
immediate family that newspapers limit their obits to for space if nothing
else).
Daniel Case
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