among other, less laudatory aspects of his career. Actually, it's an obit, titled "Kobe Bryant’s Brilliant and Complicated Legacy." I thought it a bit harsh, given the recentness of the loss, and the fact that his family is grieving two losses. But still, no one has been suspended. Public figures' lives are public, and the good and the less good, if factual, I suppose are fair game.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/sports/kobe-bryant-obituary.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

please. dead worship has limits people.

It was neither the time nor the place and she was doing it for clicks/controversy. No reason to go there the day he dies.

There's so much to admire him for and so many reasons to grieve. But this happened too, and it isn't fair to his accuser to pretend that it didn't.

I personally wouldn't have linked to the story so soon, but I can't justify suspending and possibly firing a reporter who did.

Someone passes, and the sorrow turns to stories of the deceased’s wrong-doing. Experiencing this after the loss of especially a couple of my grandparents has been one of the hardest realities of human behavior I’ve had to try to understand. Or just being on the sidelines of another family tear each other apart in analyzing how unfair the inheritance is relative to their views of the departed. The hurt may need to come out, but it can be hard to take.

It is complex dealing with the loss of a human being. I am mournful, with waves of pit-of-the-stomach sadness over the tragedy and shock over Bryant, his daughter, and the other passengers. I will come around to grappling with his transgressions, again, as I did years past. I get how his celebrity quickens the scrutiny in the reporting, but it hasn’t much changed my emotional state. Is where I’m at today.

all I could think was, he was a rapist. "Hero worship" should end when the "hero" breaks the law IMHO.