Quote Originally Posted by RICHARD View Post
In high school my journalism class took a trip to the Los Angeles Times building and were given a tour of the setup.

One of the things that amazed me was the 'morgue'. The morgue was an area where all the obituaries are pre written for all people of note-actors, politicians, dignitaries and so on...

So when that person dies, there is no rush to write a newspaper piece on them-the changes are made as time goes on and there are just a few facts to insert into the article before it's published.
Cute story but incorrect.

Newspapers do prepare obituaries of famous people in advance.

However, a newspaper morgue is not where those are stored. A quick check in Google or the like would have told you...

Morgues are collections of reference clippings files maintained for the news sources’ researchers and reporters. Morgue files do not include entire issues or intact front pages. Articles from various information sources concerning newsworthy individuals and topics were clipped and gathered together by subject headings, not dates. Clippings morgues provide an excellent resource for research, since actual copies of all the articles desired on one topic are contained in one place, and not scattered throughout microfilmed, chronological reels of entire publications.
But then a similar search would have shown Obama did not praise Micheal Vick.

But why let facts get in the way?