Quote: worthing wire "Half-page report on p9 of today's Times, and virtually full page obituary on p47, just to counter the assertion a few posts ago that his passing would be ignored by the press.'"
The full page obit, in the broadsheets, was always going to happen. You don't get too many famous people/people of achievement dying daily, so they need to fill copy. My comment was mainly aimed at the lower end of the tabloid press, with their seedy innuendo, who's only interest in this sad story, would have been "eye, eye. Bloke nearly in his 60's, dying in a hotel room with a girl half his age. we all now whats been going on there"
The same thing happened nearly a decade ago, when the BRILLIANT John Entwhistle died (admittedly in the company of a lady of the night), and all the media reported was that he was with a "working girl", not that the world has lost probably the best bass player that's ever lived. Typical of the British media, always looking for the bad in everything
