It's been a tough week for Philly journalism icons.
Last week we lost the great Stan Hochman.
Today there is news that another towering voice has fallen silent. Sandy Grady died. He was 87.
When I was a kid, I delivered the Evening Bulletin, and every day someone could count on getting a rumpled copy, the one I had already rummaged through to read Grady's renderings.
Grady covered sports and later politics.
After the Bulletin's demise, he landed at the Daily News and became a force covering politics. His column was a must read for political junkies.
The newspapers in heaven have had a helluva week. For the rest of us, especially those of us who toil in this wacky business, there is a sense of unease, of things lost that can't be recovered, of a changing journalism landscape that will never be the same.
That landscape was created by the likes of Hochman and Grady. We will all be lessened by their absence.
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