The Five People You Meet In Heaven: Uh, actually, it ended up being more like three

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Beleagured columnist Mitch Albom, currently “under investigation” by employer the Detroit Free Press gets some tepid support from other editors (he, however, gets no support from Larry King Jr.).
Upshot, courtesy of Clark Hoyt, Washington editor of Knight Ridder Newspapers: “You don’t write in the past tense about something that hasn’t happened yet.” We couldn’t have heavily implied it better ourselves.

Should Albom Be Fired? At ASNE, Editors Say No [E&P via Romenesko]

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