Friday 6 November 2009

FRANK BATTEN: THE GUARDIAN OBITUARY

My obituary of Frank Batten, who started The Weather Channel and ran both Landmark Communications and served as chairman of Associated Press, is in today's Guardian. You can link to it here. He seemed a uniquely exemplary media mogul, almost Capra-esque, which the Guardian's desk had picked up on astutely when they asked me to write it.

Fellow pedants who follow paper's style guide will note the contrast between their use of caps in Culver military academy and the US Merchant Marine Academy, in consecutive sentences.

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