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Was Michael Jackson’s death worth front-page display in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch? For editors yesterday, the answer was clearly yes.

But how much display was appropriate? News of his death arrived late afternoon. (Bob Rose will be posting a…

A couple readers called today to ask why the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ignored the death of former Congressman Jack Kemp.  We didn’t.  Word of his death first came on Saturday evening as the Post-Dispatch neared its first-edition deadline.

Here’s Sunday Editor…

A reader had this to say about our Sunday story on the death of former White House spokesman Tony Snow:

“I’m alarmed by the content of the article that appeared in your Sunday edition regarding the death of Tony Snow.Why did…

We kind of fumbled our reporting of the death of actor Charlton Heston. At least for thousands of Post-Dispatch readers.

Word of Heston’s death moved late Saturday evening, and made it into many copies of the Sunday Post-Dispatch. But thousands of…