Romenesko

National Society of Newspaper Columnists
"In fact, Art Buchwald finds funny fodder in knock-knock-knocking on heaven’s door," writes Suzette Martinez Standring, who went to his Washington, D.C. hospice to present to him the 2006 Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award. She asked the columnist, who has refused dialysis, why he isn't afraid of death. "Because I don’t know what it is and I don’t have control over it," he replied.