Photo: University of Massachusetts Amherst.
With the exception of EMTs, doctors in ER, and morticians, no industry, not even the military, encounters death as regularly as we in the news media do. So perhaps we can be forgiven for the disproportionate attention and sentiment we lavish on members of our guild when they die, as when Tim Russert was accorded the status of a head of state. That said, the capacity crowd of former mayors and reporters and the thinning ranks of reporters still practicing the trade who attended yesterday’s memorial service at BU’s Marsh Chapel for Alan Lupo was as much a requiem for the business he belonged to as it was a fitting tribute to a veteran who fought the good war. Continue reading
