Steve Wright's Sunday show was always pre-recorded. Requests had to be sent in by Wednesday (I think) for the Sunday show. I'm surprised that he was only 69: I thought he was more older than me than that.
This is going to add an order of difficulty to our game.
A Los Angeles Times reporter, Deborah Vankin, read her own obituary and watched "news anchors" in an accompanying video discuss her untimely death, CNN reported.
"Without her knowledge, Vankin had become the latest victim of scammers who fabricate death announcements to get clicks and ad revenue," the CNN story said. "Some of the so-called 'obituary pirates' are turning to AI to create death announcements padded with key words for Google searches, spreading alarm and misinformation, experts said."
The fake obit scams are different because they're not targeting the supposed "dead" person, or their loved ones, for money, but they're writing fake obituaries for people with potentially high-traffic searchable names in order to rack up clicks to earn ad revenue, Chris Pierson, CEO of BlackCloak, an Orlando, Florida-based cybersecurity firm, told USA TODAY.
Was it Mark Twain who said "reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated"?
I know it isn't a laughing matter though: not just distressing for the "not actually dead" people, but for their families, friends and (in the case of celebrities, athletes and so on) their fans.
Posted in the general RIP thread, then managed to find this one again.
Gerry Conway, late of Fairport Convention died on Friday 29 March 😢 https://www.fairportconvention.com/
Announcement from the band at above site (sorry, can't seem to link to anything but the entry page). Appears from his Wikipedia page that he had MND.
Not unexpected but very sad. He and his friend and former team-mate Kevin Sinfield have raised millions for MND research since his diagnosis. A good and brave man.
Another from my list has died. The great Willie Mays has died, age 93.
As it so happens, Major League Baseball was already planning on honoring Mays and the Negro Leagues on Thursday:
Thursday’s MLB at Rickwood Field: A Tribute to the Negro Leagues on FOX will feature a pregame ceremony honoring the life of Willie Mays. The Birmingham Black Barons called Rickwood Field home from 1924 through 1960. As a teenager, Mays began his professional career with the Black Barons in 1948. Rickwood Field was the site of the final Negro League World Series game in October 1948, which saw Mays’ Black Barons falling to the Homestead Grays in five games.
Mays had sent word earlier that he would be unable to attend.
I have a confession; as a Brit, I know bugger-all about baseball, but I had heard of Mr Mays, through the delightful medium of the Peanuts cartoons. I also confess he would probably have been on my "been dead for years" list.
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Only 69 - that's too young. RIP.
Last weekend was apparently recorded. Which makes it sound like he had become ill but was expected to recover.
RIP Steve. I remember him from his R1 days.
I stand corrected.
I'm the same; his show with the Afternoon Boys and Girls was a staple of my early 20s.
Remember Mr Angry?
I know it isn't a laughing matter though: not just distressing for the "not actually dead" people, but for their families, friends and (in the case of celebrities, athletes and so on) their fans.
Comics creator Ed Piskor, who had been accused of sexual improprieties, has died by suicide.
la vie en rouge, Circus host
Gerry Conway, late of Fairport Convention died on Friday 29 March 😢
https://www.fairportconvention.com/
Announcement from the band at above site (sorry, can't seem to link to anything but the entry page). Appears from his Wikipedia page that he had MND.
Someday, we'll meet on that ledge...
A quick glance suggests that none of us had him on our lists, but I might have missed it.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/22/swimming-david-wilkie-great-britain-gold-medallist?CMP=share_btn_url
Rob Burrow, aged 41, former Leeds scrum-half of Motor Neurone Disease.
@TheOrganist had him on their list I think
As it so happens, Major League Baseball was already planning on honoring Mays and the Negro Leagues on Thursday:
Mays had sent word earlier that he would be unable to attend.
I have a confession; as a Brit, I know bugger-all about baseball, but I had heard of Mr Mays, through the delightful medium of the Peanuts cartoons. I also confess he would probably have been on my "been dead for years" list.
May he rest in peace.
(That's two . . . who will be the third?)
Ouch
Shelley Duvall, alas, though she went first.
Ouch indeed.
I hate having mixed feelings about such a horrible thing.
I know and sympathize.
I wholeheartedly relate.
I see she was was ninety-sex.
https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/10128236-jacoby-jones-dies-at-40-former-nfl-wr-won-super-bowl-47-with-ravens-in-2013.amp.html
And 96 is, of course, 69 written backwards.