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Article: Obituaries grow steadily livelier
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- The Spectator
- Article date:
- February 22, 1997
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CANADA FROM AFAR: THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF CANADIAN OBITUARIES edited by David Twiston Davies Dundurn Press, available from Telegraph Books Direct, tel. 01908 566 366, 9.95, pp. 270
Newspapers once published news; now television supplies instant awareness of what's happening. As a result, newspapers have become more like daily magazines, replete with extended articles about people, their dalliances, foibles, misadventures and occasionally even achievements. The scrutiny of private lives has become increasingly close, feeding a ready and substantial market for gossip about those seen fleetingly on television broadcasts or those whose antics would have, in another day, been monitored only ...