Romenesko

"On the Media"
Associated Press entertainment editor Jesse Washington discusses Britney Spears' obit and celebrity deaths with Bob Garfield. "We don't have some morbid group of individuals sitting around looking at folks who are ready to keel over," he says. "It's more us exercising our news judgment. You have to be more prepared. If we wait an hour to have a really good obituary for someone like Heath Ledger, we're totally out of the game. And that's not a place that I ever want to be."