David Rosenbaum: Remembrance and Reproach

As details emerge about David Rosenbaum‘s death, which has been conclusively determined to be a murder, likely by two people, a disquieting picture is emerging of what went wrong in the response. Apparently there were delays at the scene with the ambulance’s arrival (it took 22 minutes for one to arrive) and further delays at the hospital, where Rosenbaum waited for over an hour to be seen.

There has been reproach, too, for the New York Times‘ coldly professional reporting on the death of a colleague and contributor, especially when it came to providing a picture of Rosenbaum as a person who enlivened the newsroom in Washington and contributed to the NYT community for over 35 years.

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