Posted 8:14 AM by Gene

We'd hoped to drop the subject for all time yesterday as it seems like piling on otherwise, but you can tell the news hack's self-regard by the gusto he writes obits on his colleagues. Not only did these men cure cancer, they saved the universe. Thus David Halberstam acquired posthumous superhuman powers, and now Tom Snyder (whom we in our family always referred to as Tom Snide) has become the greatest interviewer ever. That these pieces are the funerary version of fanny-kissing is evident in that Snyder seems to have emerged full bore at NBC without his tryout in Philadelphia, which city does not seem to have been mentioned anywhere yesterday once. If the hacks won't tell the whole truth about themselves in their obits they can hardly be expected to tell the whole truth about anything.