Many barbarians, few gatekeepers

One of the last of the great gatekeepers of the news died this week and the tragedy is not merely in his passing but also that we almost certainly will not see his like again.Daniel T. Sullivan, who died at 88 on Wednesday, was the chief of the copy desk of the Chicago Daily News, when I, fresh out of college, was put in his care as a rookie copy editor in 1970.He went on, as he noted in a “hold