Jerry Nachman was a very entertaining newsman. Others have written better and more informative obituaries about him than I could write, so I'll leave that to them. However, I do want to share something I saw on C-SPAN one Sunday afternoon a few years ago.
It was a panel of newspaper editors sharing anecdotes about their business. At the time Jerry Nachman was the Editor-in-Chief at the New York Post, and he told an amusing story about a discussion he had at the paper when Mother Theresa died. News outlets around the world had made a huge to-do about Lady Diana's death a short time before. And they had come under some criticism for the extensive coverage because, although Lady Di was a very lovely person, she had not really accomplished very much.
So, Mother Theresa died, and the question came up at the paper of whether to put her death in a front page headline. So, here's the way Jerry Nachman described his response. "She was an old woman. She died. That's not a headline. If she DIDN'T die, now THAT'S a headline!!"
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