Long live journalism in the corners
Only the obituary page unites the big and the small. It is the liveliest, deadest form of journalism, part of the 'brightly-coloured kaleidoscope of the world day-by-day,' as Britain's Daily Mail once put it. Yet it gets little respect in Canada.
Only by reading death notices have I learned the truth about food additives, Motel 6, and the man who invented intermittent wipers. Every day, I read obituaries in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Times of London. It is an interesting hobby.
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