[NFBKTAD] Newspaper Obituaries

Tue Jul 6 20:13:51 UTC 2021

Debbie,

What Dave says is very true, but there are other serious issues with certain newspapers regarding obits where the obits do not show for several days like in the Lexington Herald Leader. I suspect that the South Bend Paper could be in this category…maybe not.

Because Legacy.com is a third party provider of obits, it would be best to contact the paper to let them know that their RSS feed is continuously missing obits, if this is the case. This is an action to take if it becomes a regular occurrence. This is not a NFB-NEWSLINE issue, it is the owner of the paper’s issue, rather that be an individual or syndicate group. Legacy is a third party or contractor for most of the newspapers across the country. Their relationship is with the newspaper so it is up to them to get it rectified. NFB-NEWSLINE can not upload what is not there. 

I will notify Bob Watson to advise since it could be a simple notification.

Todd

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Subject: Re: [NFBKTAD] Newspaper Obituaries

For several weeks there have been no obituaries in the South Bend Tribune. I’d like to know when this is going to be fixed? I know that if you check early in the day and then check at night there are going to be more obituaries.

Debbie Deatherage

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On Jul 5, 2021, at 6:48 PM, David Andrews via NFBKTAD <nfbktad at nfbnet.org <mailto:nfbktad at nfbnet.org> > wrote:

 With NFB Newsline, it depends on what time of day you check, to a certain extent.  NFB Newsline gets most of its content via RSS feeds and they take time. So, there are likely to be more obituaries in the evening than in the morning.

Dave

At 07:40 PM 6/17/2021, you wrote:

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Hello, Todd,

I can read the obituaries in the Courier-Journal, but I notice that the number of them varies considerably. Sometimes, there are a whole bunch; sometimes, just a few.

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Subject: Re: [NFBKTAD] Newspaper Obituaries

Good Evening:

I’ve had a number of complaints about the obituaries in our state in recent times, and I wanted to see how many were having an issue with the section of their respective newspapers.

If this applies to you, please include the newspaper or newspapers in your comments, if you please. We’ll take the comments about Obits in other states as well.

Thank you,

Todd

Todd E. Stephens, State Coordinator

NFB-NEWSLINE Kentucky 

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