Frightening Grant Wahl news

NYT article suggested that given his height and long limbs, he may have had undiagnosed Marfan's syndrome, which makes one particularly susceptible to that type of aortic aneurysm.

 

A spectacular tribute by one of his college friends.

 

Or, if you prefer your messages from the other side of the spectrum:
https://www.dailygood.org/story/615/are-you-living-your-eulogy-or-resume-/

 

I know of a couple who survived a brain aneurysm, but one in the aorta is all but inevitably fatal.

 

May Grant Wahl’s memory be a blessing … and many owe Qatar an apology | 3 Wire Sports

 

Good God. Is there a horse high enough for Abrahamson?

"The premise — the out-and-out racism — underlying such a thought ... "

Racism? More like awareness of a repressive government and culture and evidence of that governing structure squelching dissent in ways abhorrent to anyone familiar with an open, transparent society.

No, I didn't suspect anything nefarious in Wahl's death. As many posted here, seemingly perfectly healthy people die all the time.

Did I think something nefarious was conceivable? Yes ... but not for reasons of race (or, what Abrahamson possibly meant, ethnicity).

Talk about a guy who's read his book-cover blurbs a few times too many ...

 

I absolutely get what you're saying. I do, and I agree.

I have to say, though, that I was pretty surprised -- no, make that, even kind of shocked -- myself, to see posters here, just on this one site (which I know to be full of many old-school journalists/former journalists), jumping straight to the possibility that Wahl had been intentionally killed, that there was a good chance his body wouldn't be returned home, or autopsied, and wondering what could be done, etc.

It really brought home how much journalism really has changed. I don't think that quick-fire reactionary response would have occurred, oh, even eight or 10 years ago. And it has been fostered, furthered and worsened in the past few years of Trump, Fox News and social media prevalence.

 

I don't think many of us were Tweeting this and I'm sure none of us were writing 750-word columns on it, though. It's an entirely different thing to come to a message board and post we're thinking the worst when a writer who has been a high-profile critic of a murderous regime and a blood money organization dies suddenly while covering the latter's jewel event.

 

I realize that. Many others were Tweeting, Facebooking and otherwise reading various social-media posts about it, and apparently making the same suggestions, though. We weren't the only ones, and I think that's what Abrahamson references. I didn't read a lot of other stuff, and just was surprised at the response here.

 

None of that happens if the brother doesn't come out and say it first.

 

The brother is the most biased person in the world making that accusation.

Using the brother as a justification is pretty lame.