Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, has died at the age of 100, and the New York Times gargantuan obit made it onto Monday’s front page. The print headline underlined “peacemaker”: “A Peacemaker Who Never Stopped Striving.” On A-16, the headline deemed Carter as “Peacemaker Amid Crises.”
Online, the subhead offered more nuance: “Jimmy Carter, Peacemaking President Amid Crises, Is Dead at 100 — Rising from Georgia farmland to the White House, he oversaw the historic Camp David peace accords, but his one-term presidency was waylaid by troubles at home and abroad.”
The 10,000-word obituary was co-written by the paper’s White House correspondent and the late Roy Reed, former Times national correspondent. who worked for the paper until 1978, halfway through the Carter presidency (Reed died in 2017).
As the Times is wont to do,…
