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« Baudrillard obit and mailbag | Main | First great workplace tale » Thursday, March 8, 2007More Baudrillard obitsI grumbled yesterday about possible Onion-style obit headlines for Baudrillard (remember the "Jacques Derrida 'Dies'" headline?), but the MSM isn't waiting for the Onion, this time around. Lead sentence in the Guardian obit: "Jean Baudrillard's death did not take place." A column in the same edition of the Guardian was titled: "Has this man really died?" Over at Slate, Michael Weiss's blogwatch column started off a section on bloggers' reactions to Baudrillard's demise with the headline: "This death never happened." Finally, The Australian's headline: "Reality claims Gallic provocateur." UPDATE Posted by Joshua Glenn at 09:20 AM
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