Newsgroups: alt.radio.networks.npr
From: hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 1996/02/02
Subject: Is Harold Brodkey Josef Brodsky?

Last week NPR News reported the death of Josef Brodsky, Nobel Laureate
in Literature (1987).  They mentioned a New York Times report that he
died of an apparent heart attack.

Dianne Rehm and the New Yorker both reported the death last week
of Harold Brodkey, a poet and novelist.  Dianne said he died of
complications of AIDS; the New Yorker mentioned him taking AZT.

Are these really different people?  Or is NPR being disingenuously
(and dis-informatively) squeamish about reporting the circumstances of
the same man's death?

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil