Escapee wrote a thought-provoking post on the life, death and fatal decision of former KOMO/Seattle news anchor Kathi Goertzen this week. In his Atmospheric Ruminations post, Escapee contended that the popular anchor could have saved herself with radical surgery early on, that would have knocked her off camera:
I can't help but think that if she'd had all of the tumor taken out when it was first diagnosed, she'd still be here
today. She could've taken pride in the fact she'd been a successful news anchor for so long, and she could still be “in the biz” as far as writing, producing, interviewing, etc. Did the fact that she was a News Anchor, whose facial characteristics are transmitted nightly, influence the choices made NOT to remove the Entire Tumor? Is this, perhaps, a fatal case of putting one's job before everything else? Clearly, she loved anchoring the news, and everyone loved her and were praying for her. Maybe she couldn't face life as Not Being An Anchor. In a way, the job might have killed her. More here.
Thoughts?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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