Life

Friday's Astrid Death Is Not a New Notice

TL;DR

Friday's file has Princess Astrid of Norway dead at 94; Saturday has no second notice.

MSM Perspective

Friday filed the death. Saturday does not reprint it as news.

X Perspective

Royal feeds treat a recap as a new palace bulletin.

Princess Astrid of Norway died at 94 on Friday, two days after Harald's state funeral in this paper's week. [1] This paper printed the death. Saturday has no second notice. A death notice is not a constitutional crisis. Print Friday. Do not print a new bulletin.

No Saturday palace bulletin is in Oslo copy, so Friday's death remains Friday's and a recap is not a new notice.
Friday's death is still Friday's death. Saturday recap that treats a notice as news again is a feed, not Oslo.
No second palace notice is in Saturday's Oslo stack.
This edition will not invent a second death notice to fill a quiet Saturday.
Friday already named the death.
Saturday is not a second palace notice.

-- HENDRIK VAN DER BERG, Brussels

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