Daniel Dern notes a
sexist obit, and adds "The Grey Lady should know better… if
not the writer, than
the editor." Both of them, when asked by the Times' public editor, say
they see nothing wrong with the original.

Dan Grobstein File
    

• NPR
  to Drop ‘Talk of the Nation’
  By BRIAN STELTER
  NPR will end the call-in show “Talk of the Nation” this summer and urge
  radio stations to replace it with the Boston-based program “Here and
  Now,” which has a magazine style.
•  Papers
  Worldwide Embrace Web Subscriptions
  By ERIC PFANNER
  Online advertising, once seen as the great hope for the future, has
  begun leveling off, which is accelerating the push for new Internet
  business models.
• Queen
  goes on austerity footing, receive mere £5M pay-rise from the taxpayers
  via Boing Boing
  by Cory Doctorow on 4/2/13

  At only £36.1M from the public purse (up £5M from last year), the poor
  Queen is positively
  underpaid. After all, she was divinely chosen to be monarch.
  God will be angry.

• RT @DKThomp: 19 of the top 25 most-underlined passages in
  Amazon Kindle history are from a "Hunger Games" book https://t.co/aQ3G7yMJ1E
• Study Points to New Culprit
  in Heart Disease
  By GINA KOLATA
  
  Research showed that the association between red meat and heart disease
  risk might be related not just to fat but to bacteria that thrive on a
  component of red meat.
• For
  Scientists, an Exploding World of Pseudo-Academia
  By GINA KOLATA
  
  A parallel world of pseudo-academia, with prestigiously titled
  conferences and journals that will print seemingly anything for a fee,
  has the scientific community alarmed.