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 <
danc...@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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