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> If I am John Barth and I find out my NYTimes obituary is 242 words long Are you looking at an earlier version? The one I'm looking at is about 1800 words.
by chimeracoder 3y ago
> If I am John Barth and I find out my NYTimes obituary is 242 words long
Are you looking at an earlier version? The one I'm looking at is about 1800 words.
- speedylight 2y agoI think I was yeah, the article I saw was just 3 short paragraphs.
- chimeracoder 2y ago> I think I was yeah, the article I saw was just 3 short paragraphs. It's common for articles on breaking events (such as celebrity deaths) to begin with a short stub, and then be expanded with a full version later. Yesterday I actually saw a note ("updated at X:XX PM EST") although today that's gone. I'm not that intimately acquainted with NYT style, but perhaps that's their indication that this is the "final" version (ie, the one published in print).