I am not trying to be obsessed with death or the dead, but the paid and news obituaries we read do tell us a lot about ourselves, where we have been and where we are going, AND what a medium does or does not do with the news tells us a lot about the medium.
That was the motive behind yesterday’s post [“Who watches the news at the newspapers?”] was not so much to build up Dr. Sommerdorf as to question who at the DPP or the Mpls. paper has enough sense of history to remember people from more than a year or two ago.
Today I notice a paid DPP obit for Robert Sprafka, one of the old city councilmembers of a previous generation who was put by the wayside when the DFL took control of the city’s government structure in 1972. He later headed the Port Authority.
Let’s see if anybody picks up on this.
That was the motive behind yesterday’s post [“Who watches the news at the newspapers?”] was not so much to build up Dr. Sommerdorf as to question who at the DPP or the Mpls. paper has enough sense of history to remember people from more than a year or two ago.
Today I notice a paid DPP obit for Robert Sprafka, one of the old city councilmembers of a previous generation who was put by the wayside when the DFL took control of the city’s government structure in 1972. He later headed the Port Authority.
Let’s see if anybody picks up on this.
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