Halberstam dead

Hey, that's the reaction both me and one of our other editors had... He remembered him for his coverage of Vietnam and news events, I remembered him mostly for Summer of '49 and much of his other sports material... But first thing we both said was "Hey, that name sounds familiar."

BTW: It got put in our LIFE section. [sheepishly puts head down and walks away]

 

We gave it an A1 promo, then it was the only story on A16 (back page of A section) with a headshot.

 

Very, very sad day. Halberstam was one of the great ones. I can't believe there's people that work in this industry and have never heard of him.

"The Teammates" was one of the best books I have ever read.

 

You want to talk uneasy, my ME barely knows what's going on in his own newsroom?

 

When I told my EIC, he said the news section was too full. It ended up getting about 20 inches of play, buried on the inside with a mugshot.

 

Halberstam was the best, and a great teacher, and a great listener also.

That obit shoulda been on Page 1 in all the big papers in this country.

Sadly, in mine, it was buried deep inside.

These people in my newsroom are relatively young, and it sucks when they have no idea of what this man meant to journalism and sports and everything else he did.

None of them ever heard about the books he wrote, either.

 

Anyone in this business who doesn't know who David Halberstam is and has not read any of his work has no business being in this business. It is beyond embarrassing.

 

Ryan, today.

http://www.boston.com/sports/other_sports/articles/2007/04/25/halberstam_caught_real_life_of_sports/?page=1

Like the ending.

 

Rick Cleveland's column...

http://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070425/COL0504/704250358

 

My local paper did an A1 tease and a B7 obit, but they're so consumer and "news you can use" oriented these days that I wasn't surprised.