Mr. Bad News (1966)

This article goes well together with the Overlooked[1] series by New York Times, which prints obituaries for the people overlooked by NYT at the time of their passing.

The one that appeared on HN a while ago was for Alan Turing.

This profile of the obituary writer gives a better impression of how and why some of those people could have been overlooked.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlook...

That was a good read!

It is much more interesting than the obituary the nytimes ran for him: https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/05/nyregion/obituary-alden-w...

Gay Talese, the writer, is a famous for bringing a new style of journalism (as were a few years later people like Tom Wolfe, H.S Thomspon and so on). His most famous piece is called "Frank Sinatra has a cold".

This was amazing. I’ve never been so captured by an obituary.