Once Upon a Time...

[lsanderson]

I had a journalism teacher whose pet peeve was that "pass away" does not belong in the news business. People do not pass away. They die. In the paid obit, they may saunter off beyond the rainbow, or shuffle off this mortal coil, but in the goddamned newspaper they goddamned died. These days I see more and more euphemisms. It's too bad that my journalism teacher o' old ain't dead yet, so she can't roll in her grave...

On the other hand, you people out there, stop dying.

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[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

Pining for the fjords?