Is the Media Closing the Door on Senator Kennedy's Recovery?
May 22, 2008 - Ever since the sad news of Senator Ted Kennedy's brain tumor diagnosis broke, I've been seeing a barrage of news coverage that seems pretty postmortem. Article topics include:
Boston contemplates life after Ted Kennedy
Many possible successors to Kennedy
A timeline of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's life
The coverage makes me think media companies are rolling out their prefabricated eulogies a little…