(Reported by Reuters on Yahoo! News)
The Fictitious Minds of the Times, The New York Times - I really am beginning to wonder if the Mad Hatter isn't running the New York Times. After the passing of the Great Entertainer, Bob Hope (July 27, 2003), they published an extensive and glowing obituary on the man. The wonderful obit was penned by Vincent Canby, who died in October of 2000. I guess some writers just can't be kept in the grave. So they used a piece prepared ahead of time, so what? Well, nearly three years passed in the time being, surely there was something else to add. And indeed they did add it attributing it to Canby. On the front page of the web obit the article says,
"In 'Bob Hope: My Life in Jokes' (Hyperion, 2003), his daughter Linda helped compile some of his jibes decade by decade."Interesting how Canby knew about that from beyond the grave. The sheer arrogance of the Times is becoming laughable. The Reuters post on this guffaw, a bit ironic being Reuters has had some themselves, mentions that they didn't say in the Times hard copy that Canby was diseased but they did mention it on the web sites original post. However, in my searching for the article in the Times archives, I have found no mention of Canby's passing attached to the piece. Maybe the Times should switch gears and start covering Alien Abductions and Crop Circles, and enlist the experts like Mulder and Scully.
