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by Sheila Lennon
'Bottom-up' journalism from the pros

June 6, 2002 • Today's weblog

R.I.P. Caroline Knapp: The Brown graduate and columnist for the Boston and Providence Phoenixes dies at 42 of complications from lung cancer, two months after diagnosis. Here's the Phoenix obit. The AP obit is shockingly crass:

"Knapp was an Ivy League graduate and successful journalist who by all appearances had her life in order. But underneath, she was filled with the lies and self-loathing that come with addiction."

Did AP know her intimately enough to state that as fact? Is somebody projecting here? Geesh! Write your own obit now, before somebody who never met you smugly dismisses your life.
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