Life In 19x19

Horibe wrote:

kirkmc wrote:

gogameguru wrote:Kirk, please reread what I wrote above.

I actually put a lot of time into this whole thing, verifying things and otherwise. And not all newspapers publish obituaries online, by the way.

Still no excuse. Did you contact other go associations who might have more knowledge of Richard personally? Did you send an e-mail to Kiseido?

My recall, the article is now down, was that the posting clearly stated that the obit would "soon be published" or something like that, in the "Japan Times" or something like that.

So, by my recall of the post, I was not sure it was published - so kirkmc, given your strong "no excuse" policy - it seems to me you did not read it very well before you posted it here.

kirkmc wrote:

Horibe wrote:

kirkmc wrote:Still no excuse. Did you contact other go associations who might have more knowledge of Richard personally? Did you send an e-mail to Kiseido?

My recall, the article is now down, was that the posting clearly stated that the obit would "soon be published" or something like that, in the "Japan Times" or something like that.

So, by my recall of the post, I was not sure it was published - so kirkmc, given your strong "no excuse" policy - it seems to me you did not read it very well before you posted it here.

Huh?

kirkmc wrote:So, wait, you got the obituary by email, but don't have any link to it being published anywhere? Dude, journalism 101: always confirm your sources.

If this is false, then my apologies for relaying it here.

tchan001 wrote:He probably meant that as a journalist, you should have checked up on the sources yourself before relaying the obit given your strong "no excuse" policy towards the publisher of the original article.

kirkmc wrote:

tchan001 wrote:He probably meant that as a journalist, you should have checked up on the sources yourself before relaying the obit given your strong "no excuse" policy towards the publisher of the original article.

I trusted that the site had correct information; that they had done the necessary checking. Since I don't read Japanese, I wouldn't have been able to check it very thoroughly.

tchan001 wrote:

kirkmc wrote:

tchan001 wrote:He probably meant that as a journalist, you should have checked up on the sources yourself before relaying the obit given your strong "no excuse" policy towards the publisher of the original article.

I trusted that the site had correct information; that they had done the necessary checking. Since I don't read Japanese, I wouldn't have been able to check it very thoroughly.

Would be nice if you bothered to check Google to find out the The Japan Times is "the most widely read English-language newspaper in Japan". Just because I know you live in France doesn't mean I should assume you only speak French

kirkmc wrote:

tchan001 wrote:

kirkmc wrote:I trusted that the site had correct information; that they had done the necessary checking. Since I don't read Japanese, I wouldn't have been able to check it very thoroughly.

Would be nice if you bothered to check Google to find out the The Japan Times is "the most widely read English-language newspaper in Japan". Just because I know you live in France doesn't mean I should assume you only speak French

I honestly have never looked for any Japanese newspapers on the web, so while I could have assumed there might be one in English, it really wasn't up to me to check.

Via Twitter, Anders just posted that he has confirmation that Richard Bozulich is indeed still alive.

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