> The point of a journalist is not to write your perspective as a member of a group, it is to write as one outside a group. This person was expecting the articl

> The point of a journalist is not to write your perspective as a member of a group, it is to write as one outside a group. This person was expecting the article/comment/tweet to be written as if from that group, and that is not journalism, that's more like a documentary. There's actually a middle ground here. An obituary should really be a kind of capsule biography that explains someone how they're seen inside and outside their group. The NYT didn't to that, but rather they dwelled too much on a few controversies and almost entirely glossed over why and how he rose to the position he had. There's room for improvement in how they handled this.