Newspaper Apologizes After It Removed Trump Dig From 87-Year-Old Woman's Obituary
The editor of a Kentucky newspaper has apologized to a local family after his publication refused to print an 87-year-woman’s obituary unless a criticism at President Donald Trump was removed.
Frances Irene Finley Williams’ family originally submitted her obituary to Louisville’s Courier-Journal in the days following her death. It described Williams, who died Nov. 21, 2018, as a “very, very spirited woman” and “a passionate Democrat” who loved animals and Elvis Presley and “did not suffer fools gladly.”
Then, a contentious line: “Her passing was hastened by her continued frustration with the Trump administration.”
Days before the obituary was set to run in the print edition of The Courier-Journal, Williams’ son, Art Williams, and daughter, Carol Duff, were told it had been rejected, despite the fact that the family had paid $1,684 for it to appear.
“We are not able to publish the obituary as is, due to the negative content within the obituary text,” the obituary office at the Courier-Journal’s parent company, Gannett, reportedly told the family in an email.
Though Duff and her brothers told The Washington Post they “didn’t understand” Gannett’s reasoning, they opted to omit the Trump line from their mother’s obituary, so it could be published ahead of a Dec. 28 memorial service.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/frances-irene-finley-williams-obituary-trump_us_5c3f6885e4b041e98ff9f268
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