Prioritization; Media Style

Pat Hingle (actor) -- Dead. Myelodysplasia. Cheryl Holdridge (actress) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Don Galloway (actor) -- Dead. Stroke. Rob Gauntlett (adventurer) -- Dead. Mountain climbing accident. Patrick McGoohan (actor) -- Dead. Ricardo Montalban (actor) -- Dead. Andrew Wyeth (artist) -- Dead. Bob May (actor/robot driver) -- Dead. Congestive heart failure. James Brady (writer) -- Dead. John Updike (writer) -- Dead. Lung cancer. James Whitmore (actor) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Bossom Dearie (singer/pianist) -- Dead. Robert Anderson (playwright) -- Dead. Pneumonia/Alzheimer's. Estelle Bennett (singer) -- Dead. Colon cancer. Louie Bellson (drummer) -- Dead. Parkinson's Disease. John McGlinn (conductor/music historian) -- Dead. Heart attack. Dr. Eugenia Calle (epidemiologist) -- Dead. Murder. Howard Zieff (director) -- Dead. Parkinson's disease. Philip Jose Farmer (writer) -- Dead. Wendy Richard (actress) -- Dead. Cancer. Paul Harvey (radio broadcaster) -- Dead. Horton Foote (writer) -- Dead. Jimmy Boyd (singer/actor) -- Dead. Cancer. Lenore Annenberg (Philanthropist) -- Dead. Betsy Blair (actress) -- Dead. Ron Silver (actor) -- Dead. Esophageal cancer. Natasha Richardson (actress) -- Dead. [rumors] "England" Dan Seals (singer) -- Dead. Lymphoma.

Michael Jackson (singer/songwriter) -- Dead. Cardiac arrest.

Irving R. Levine (newscaster) -- Dead. Maurice Jarre (composer) -- Dead. Andy Hallett (actor) -- Dead. Heart failure.Jody McRea (actor) -- Dead. Cardiac arrest. Dave Arneson (game creator/teacher) -- Dead. Cancer. Jack Wrangler (Theater producer/porn actor) -- Dead. Emphysema. Marilyn Chambers (model/adult star) -- Dead. Mark Fidrych (pitcher/farmer) -- Dead. Truck accident. J. G. Ballard (author) -- Dead. Prostate cancer. Bea Arthur (actress) -- Dead. Cancer. Danny Gans (comic/impersonator) -- Dead. Heart disease/prescription drug overdose. Marilyn French (writer) -- Dead. Dom DeLuise (comic actor/cook) – Dead. David Eddings (writer) -- Dead. David Carradine (actor) -- Dead. Reported asphyxiation. John Houghtaling (inventor) -- Dead. Complications of a fall. Lorena Gale (actress/playwright) -- Dead. Stomach cancer. Jerri Nielsen Fitzgerald (doctor/speaker) -- Dead. Cancer. Ed McMahon (announcer) -- Dead. Pneumonia/cancer. Farrah Fawcett (actress/model) -- Dead. Cancer. Gale Storm (actress) -- Dead. Billy Mays (pitchman) -- Dead. Heart disease. Fred Travalena (impersonator/comic/cartoon voice) -- Dead. Cancer. Harve Presnell (actor/singer) -- Dead. Pancreatic cancer. Mollie Sugden (actress) – Dead. Allen Klein (music agent/movie producer) -- Dead. Robert McNamara (secretary of defense) -- Dead. Steve McNair (Quarterback) – Dead. Murder

Seven soldiers died Monday in Afghanistan: Four soldiers died in a roadside bombing in Kunduz province. Two soldiers died in a roadside blast in southern Afghanistan. A soldier died after a firefight with militants in the east. The latest identifications reported by the military: Two Army soldiers died Saturday at Combat Outpost Zerok, Afghanistan, after an insurgent attack. Both were assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska. Killed were Pfc. Justin A. Casillas, 19, Dunnigan, Calif. and Pfc. Aaron E. Fairbairn, 20, Aberdeen, Wash. Lance Cpl. Charles S. Sharp, 20, of Adairsville, Ga., died Thursday during combat in Helmand province, Afghanistan; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

RIP to the fallen. The true heroes of our land.