Today I read about Robin Williams' last moments in Yahoo! Celebrity (link below), where the article by Suzzy Byrne states the actor's body was found by his assistant at about 11h45, and his death was officially declared at 12h02.
https://celebrity.yahoo.com/blogs/celeb-news/sheriff-reveals-new-details-of-robin-williams-suicide-181808746.html
I found quite a different thing in the "Obituary" published yesterday (12 Aug) in the print edition of the huge newspaper O GLOBO, page 11. It says that an emergency call was made at 11h, informing that the actor was found unconscious and not breathing. It adds that paramedics reached the scene around an hour later. Yes, the text is blunt clear. Literally in Portuguese," Após uma ligação de emergência feita a partir de sua casa, às 11h... os paramédicos chegaram cerca de uma hora depois, e declararam a morte às 12h02."
This embarrassing delay has thus been omitted from Yahoo! Celebrity I mentioned. But, not from only that! Let me tell all of you what happened with the digital version of the obituary from that very O GLOBO news giant. The link http://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/filmes/morre-ator-robin-williams-aos-63-anos-13568426
leads to a page that now shows,
"Atualizado" means updated. So here we confront this 'miracle' the digital era performs! Where is the earlier version of that on the Internet? Disappeared. The updated version is written over the previous version, as everyone knows. And many cannot see any problem with that at all.
I have not thrown out the print edition - it is right in my hands.
The updated online version, in O GLOBO (link just given), now reads,
A polícia do Condado de Marin, na Califórnia, recebeu uma ligação de
emergência da casa de Williams às 11h55m desta segunda-feira, informando
que o ator havia sido encontrado inconsciente e sem respiração. Os
paramédicos chegaram logo após o meio-dia e declararam a morte às
12h02m.
Translating it into English, we have that the police of that County (Marin) received an emergency call from William's house at 11h55m [55m added] this Monday, informing etc... The paramedics arrived soon after midday and declared the death at 12h02m.
So the paramedics' delay disappears along with one important proof of it. Indeed, newspapers - in the old era - were crucial documents. Actually, they are still documents... in the print, dying version almost everyone already despises.
I can assume no one can by now find - online - barely a single page mentioning the paramedics' delay.
Added to my grief, this sort of thing makes any further words from me faint. Would you forgive me for that?
But how can I close for today when our best candidate for presidency (Brazil) dies tragically this morning?
