the ones I really feel sorry for

[susandennis]

are Dr Ruth and Richard Simons. I mean she waited nearly a century for her obituary and it gets lost. And poor Richard. He deserves more than to get shuffled under the bleachers. oh and Shannen Doherty.

I can understand wall to wall coverage for the first 12 hours or so but I'm guessing it's been a good 24 since anything 'new' has come to light. They are beyond re hashing yesterday's shit now.

Comments

[siglinde999]

Dr. Ruth got a fair bit of coverage here. The others got some, but I don’t see either of them as being equally influential. I’m afraid that news will colour the rest of the election and beyond. It is certainly taking a lot of space in our media. The Convention is currently the top story on CBC.

[sweetmeow]

I actually heard a bit about Dr. Ruth, enough so that I looked her up to read the details about her life. She sure made the most of her difficult upbringing. But I understand just what you're saying. The media gets fixated on one thing and excludes other important things.

Richard Simmons? I thought he'd already died! (Oops!)

I was a 90210 fan back in the day, and I loved Shannon Doherty. I knew she was sick for a long time, and I'm sorry that she lost that battle.

[maju]

Shannen Doherty made it into my online newspaper from Australia, but neither of the other two did.