Journalists

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Ben Bradlee, the former editor for the Washington Post, has gone in to hospice care.

ben Bradlee dead at 93! http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/22/business/media/ben-bradlee-editor-who-directed-watergate-coverage-dies-at-93.html?_r=0

[charon 4,943]

Helen Fawkes first words in months are.....tumours are shrinking.

 

Over 50 bouts of experimental chemo cannot be good though I would have thought.

 

https://helenfawkes.wordpress.com/

[Guest Lucas]

Helen Fawkes first words in months are.....tumours are shrinking.

 

Over 50 bouts of experimental chemo cannot be good though I would have thought.

 

https://helenfawkes.wordpress.com/

This is easily one of the most depressing blog posts I've read. Seems like these experimental drugs she's been receiving have been very successful at extending her life, but at what cost? At the age of 41, lying around watching the telly all day and still feeling tired, being sick all day throwing up at the mere thought of receiving another dose of the chemo drug... I wonder whether that's a life worth living. Perhaps for the false hope that this time the effects are gonna last and the new wonder drug will make the cancer disappear once and for all (and when the cancer starts growing again, yet another more toxic chemo drug should await her).

 

To be honest, this makes me think that if I ever get diagnosed with advanced cancer, I should opt for a good dose of sleeping pills instead of this.

[Dr. Zorders 1,271]

Helen Fawkes first words in months are.....tumours are shrinking.

 

Over 50 bouts of experimental chemo cannot be good though I would have thought.

 

https://helenfawkes.wordpress.com/

This is easily one of the most depressing blog posts I've read. Seems like these experimental drugs she's been receiving have been very successful at extending her life, but at what cost? At the age of 41, lying around watching the telly all day and still feeling tired, being sick all day throwing up at the mere thought of receiving another dose of the chemo drug... I wonder whether that's a life worth living. Perhaps for the false hope that this time the effects are gonna last and the new wonder drug will make the cancer disappear once and for all (and when the cancer starts growing again, yet another more toxic chemo drug should await her).

 

To be honest, this makes me think that if I ever get diagnosed with advanced cancer, I should opt for a good dose of sleeping pills instead of this.

 

You know Sky1 show three episodes of The Simpsons every night, right? Sometimes more?

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Colin Bloomfield "trying to stay positive".

 

BBC Radio Derby presenter Colin Bloomfield has been diagnosed with melanoma....

 

 

Health update.

 

Things are getting worse for Col'

 

Colin Bloomfield's cancer has spread to his brain.

 

https://twitter.com/ColinBloomfield

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Colin Bloomfield reminds everyone he is still hanging on with just over 2 months till the 2015 DDP starts then.

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The Guardian's former sports editor John Samuel has died after suffering a heart attack and stroke a few days ago.

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Fox News correspondent Dominic Di-Natale, 43 years old, dies of apparent suicide:

 

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/fox-news-correspondent-domenic-di-natale-dies

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Tom Brokaw has multiple myeloma.

 

Apparently in remission.

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Bill Moyers (finally) retiring at 80. Definitely starting to look his age.

[Grande Pablo 109]

North East TV presenter & journo Eileen McCabe

 

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/former-tv-presenter-eileen-mccabe-8393273

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"One of Mexico's most important and influential journalists of the past half century, Julio Scherer Garcia, died Wednesday at the age of 88, reported Proceso, the newsmagazine he founded."

 

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/influential-mexican-journalist-julio-scherer-garcia-dead-88-n281536

[charon 4,943]

http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/Colin-Bloomfield-Scan-shows-brain-tumours-stable/story-25825595-detail/story.html#ixzz3OF491X1n

 

Colin Bloomfield brain tumours are "stable" , doesn't say owt re the liver and lung ones though.

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Sandy Socolow, Walter Cronkite's "right hand," dies at 86

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sandy-socolow-walter-cronkites-right-hand-dies-at-86/

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NYT columnist David Carr collapsed at the office and died, at age 58:

 

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/13/david-carr-new-york-times-columnist-dies-suddenly-at-office

 

He had a long history of drug abuse (Edit: Just like Steve Strange....).

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Arnaud de Borchgrave, a Journalist Whose Life Was a Tale Itself, Dies at 88; the son of a Belgian count and a storied foreign correspondent ... twice a best-selling novelist, insisted that he was no saffron-robed Moonie. Mr. de Borchgrave renounced his aristocratic title and became an American citizen in 1957.

 

"If he could have, Mr. de Borchgrave, who boasted of his prescience, might have drafted his own obituary. According to Harlan Ullman, a fellow columnist at U.P.I., he came close. “He once joked with me,” Dr. Ullman said, “that his tombstone would read: ‘I knew this would happen.’ ”

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/business/media/arnaud-de-borchgrave-a-journalist-whose-life-was-a-tale-itself-dies-at-88.html?

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

Arnaud de Borchgrave, a Journalist Whose Life Was a Tale Itself, Dies at 88; the son of a Belgian count and a storied foreign correspondent ... twice a best-selling novelist, insisted that he was no saffron-robed Moonie. Mr. de Borchgrave renounced his aristocratic title and became an American citizen in 1957.

 

"If he could have, Mr. de Borchgrave, who boasted of his prescience, might have drafted his own obituary. According to Harlan Ullman, a fellow columnist at U.P.I., he came close. “He once joked with me,” Dr. Ullman said, “that his tombstone would read: ‘I knew this would happen.’ ”

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/business/media/arnaud-de-borchgrave-a-journalist-whose-life-was-a-tale-itself-dies-at-88.html?

Or as Spike would say "Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite".

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Arnaud de Borchgrave, a Journalist Whose Life Was a Tale Itself, Dies at 88; the son of a Belgian count and a storied foreign correspondent ... twice a best-selling novelist, insisted that he was no saffron-robed Moonie.

 

SSNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP !!!!!!!

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/business/media/arnaud-de-borchgrave-a-journalist-whose-life-was-a-tale-itself-dies-at-88.html?

Thanks a ton for copying and pasting the first two paragraphs of the NYTimes obit. As you see I've taken some liberties with this response.

Sir Creep

[Grande Pablo 109]

Reuters journo Maria Golovnina

 

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/reuters-journalist-maria-golovnina-dies-pakistan-aged-34-183131481.html#7Wx8nW1

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BBC journalist Nick Robinson has a rare form of lung cancer:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/11443706/Nick-Robinsons-cancer-Timing-lousy-prognosis-good.html

 

But apparently, the prognosis is good.

 

Some people on twitter however think that the cancer is "karma" for his coverage of the Scottish independence vote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11443421/Independence-activists-abuse-Nick-Robinson-after-his-tumour-operation-is-revealed.html

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(...)

Some people on twitter however think that the cancer is "karma" for his coverage of the Scottish independence vote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11443421/Independence-activists-abuse-Nick-Robinson-after-his-tumour-operation-is-revealed.html

And some people thought that Hurricane Katrina was "divine retribution" for the mortal sins of the residents of New Orleans.

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And some people thought that Hurricane Katrina was "divine retribution" for the mortal sins of the Americans.

Retribution it was, although natural rather than divine. They forgot to mention which sins: ignorance and unpreparedness, which are mortal sins indeed.

[Phantom 2,533]

 

(...)

Some people on twitter however think that the cancer is "karma" for his coverage of the Scottish independence vote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11443421/Independence-activists-abuse-Nick-Robinson-after-his-tumour-operation-is-revealed.html

And some people thought that Hurricane Katrina was "divine retribution" for the mortal sins of the residents of New Orleans.

 

Councillor David Silvester from Henley-on-Thames believed that the flooding in the UK last year was "God's" punishment for allowing same-sex marriage.

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(...)

Some people on twitter however think that the cancer is "karma" for his coverage of the Scottish independence vote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11443421/Independence-activists-abuse-Nick-Robinson-after-his-tumour-operation-is-revealed.html

And some people thought that Hurricane Katrina was "divine retribution" for the mortal sins of the residents of New Orleans.

 

Councillor David Silvester from Henley-on-Thames believed that the flooding in the UK last year was "God's" punishment for allowing same-sex marriage.

 

A few decades ago parts of the Dutch Bible Belt were hit by a polio epidemic, the result of religiously inspired reluctance against inocculation. Some creepy vicar blamed sin rather than stupidity. I couldn't care much if it were the believers themselves who were struck, but unfortunately it were their children who suffered.

[Phantom 2,533]

 

 

 

(...)

Some people on twitter however think that the cancer is "karma" for his coverage of the Scottish independence vote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11443421/Independence-activists-abuse-Nick-Robinson-after-his-tumour-operation-is-revealed.html

And some people thought that Hurricane Katrina was "divine retribution" for the mortal sins of the residents of New Orleans.

 

Councillor David Silvester from Henley-on-Thames believed that the flooding in the UK last year was "God's" punishment for allowing same-sex marriage.

 

A few decades ago parts of the Dutch Bible Belt were hit by a polio epidemic, the result of religiously inspired reluctance against inocculation. Some creepy vicar blamed sin rather than stupidity. I couldn't care much if it were the believers themselves who were struck, but unfortunately it were their children who suffered.

 

And yet people continue to worship this deity when even if he/she did exist, it's evidence of what a bastard he/she truly is and it's only fear that keeps them going.

The dad of one of my daughter's friends has been going to church all his life, "works" at the local church - not sure exactly what he does, and gets struck down by some crippling disease in his mid-30s that he now uses a zimmer frame and sometimes a wheelchair to get around. I don't think I've seen him wearing some sort of t-shirt with a bible verse on it. But depsite all that, he believes that "God" is testing his faith.