Slobituary
“[T]erm for the relentless slobbering that overtakes broadcast media outlets after the death of any Extremely Famous Person”
Matt Taibbi — RollingStone.com
You want to figure out how long people will slobber over a George Steinbrenner, just take how much they slobbered over Reagan and work backwards. So here in liberal, Yankee-mad New York City Steinbrenner is almost a full Reagan, maybe even a Reagan and change — but in the rest of New York State, which is basically a red state, you probably need four or five Steinbrenners to rate one Reagan. Add it all up and you get about half a Reagan, which puts the Steinbrenner Slobituary at about 3-4 days. We’re still in day 2; I figure it’ll lighten up some by the weekend.