Washington Post Stealth-Edits Reagan Obituary, Covertly Removes Tasteless Lead Without Note
– Lois Romano, clearly a left-leaning journalist with an anti-Republican agenda if her Twitter feed is remotely any indication, is chosen by the Washington Post to write Nancy Reagan‘s obituary. Like many obits for notable figures, this was written in advance to be ready for the moment (very common practice in print and broadcast journalism, no problem there)
– Upon publication on WashingtonPost.com Sunday morning almost immediately following the announcement of the passing, some — including me — see Romano’s obit as a trashing of Mrs. Reagan in Kitty Kelly-meets-Perez-Hilton-like fashion. Particularly disgraceful is Romano’s opening paragraph — the most important part of any column in terms of setting tone — in which she wrote the following (emphasis mine):
– A few hours later I write this column critical of Romano’s obituary. The Mediaite column gets retweeted hundreds of times and has been read over 20,000 times on Mediaite at last count. Romano is clearly aware of the Mediaite column, as some appear to have sent it to her via social media while she’s been active on her account.
Full: http://www.mediaite.com/online/washington-post-stealth-edits-reagan-obituary-covertly-removes-tasteless-lead-without-note/
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I did laugh at the mediaite comment section, though!
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Uncanny_Valley • 4 hours ago
Joe Concha, this was a great article.
Now, please write one about the journalistic manure being produced 24/7 and hurled around at The Washington Times, The National Review, American Spectator, The New York Post and others...or maybe you only criticize the New York Times, The Wapo, and other liberal papers and can't touch conservative papers.
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Stonehenge Uncanny_Valley • 39 minutes ago
Don't hold your breath; Concha is from the Bill O'Reilly school of journalism.
Lovebandit Uncanny_Valley • 3 hours ago
Spoken like a true leftwing D1CKWEED...LOL
Uncanny_Valley Lovebandit • 2 hours ago
Small-handed right-winger 
Yup. The GOP has changed the American lexicon!
But the definition of "gossip" does not equate with "UNtrue." Kitty KELLY's books are journalistically sourced and vetted. Her opening to her Nancy bio is classic: (paraphrasing:: ) Nothing in her birth certificate was true - not her name, not her date of birth, not her father's name..."
It was delish when Peter LAWFORD and other Hollywoodites told how Nancy's talent as a starlet had to do with that other, related profession/not-thespian, plus Nancy fulfilling her Climber crush with her SINATRA trysts. And this pic is chock full of dysfunction: Betty FORD seeking shelter from Big-Babs; Rosalynn being shunned the way the Boys shun Jimmy; Hillary appropriately glomming onto Ladybird; Big-Babs acting like she's the only Top Drawer one in the middle of trailer trash. And, of course, Nancy just HATING having to hang with the gals instead of the Boys.
...not that I support much of anything at all that he advanced. To the contrary. But all the same, he was remarkably successful in his initiatives, moving them in the public and legislative sphere adroitly. But obviously Nancy's astrologer could not have had a darn thing to do with that. So don't even think it. 
If the obit was prepared some time before she croaked would that not give others at
the WaPo the opportunity to give their critiques and suggest any alternate input?
