My apologies for this being short, however it struck a chord with me personally so I felt I should post it.
In yet another display of the kind of callous disregard and hollow sense of empathy that typifies today's mainstream media, the NYT manages to turn the death of a young man into an advertising opportunity.
If you haven't navigated to the provided link above, please do so. What you're looking at is what qualifies as a makeshift eulogy comprised of quotes collected in - what I assume to be - haste. The fact that news organizations must engage in the inevitable footrace to present tragedy-facts that pull heart strings is, ignoring the realities, already relatively disturbing. However, if you scroll down to the end of the text, you'll receive the kind of vomit-inducing surprise we've come to expect from the former employer of Judith Miller and erstwhile peddlers of yellowcake:
A series of contextual advertising links pulled directly from text strings present in the eulogy. Specifically the last name of the victim.
I'm a web developer. I understand that the NYT has a need to generate revenue, support advertisers and make use of its template framework. However, don't you think it might be a tad inappropriate to cheapen the memory of a young man with promise and hopes because you're too fucking stupid or busy to route to content to another section of the site, or disable the ad feature for this series of pages?
Living in NY, the NYT - at least for me - is always only about two stories away from joining The Post in terms of credibility. I already know they don't fucking fact-check, because they ran a story once containing the photo of a Korean friend of mine - referring to her as Japanese. Now they've proven they are too busy blowing themselves as the "paper of record" to appropriately honor someone killed in a tragedy.
These kinds of mistakes shouldn't happen with an outfit like this. And from a PHP guy: Hey NYT - Java scales, right?