Sad news today from Newsbusters:
Our Noel Sheppard passed away yesterday (Friday) morning at about 5:00 AM. Say a prayer for the soul of a man we’ll all miss professionally, and many, many of us will miss personally as well. Noel was not just a force of nature, he was a very good man.
How quickly this all happened. Just two months ago, Noel wrote about suddenly getting cancer at 53 called “Cancer’s Ray of Hope.” Nine days ago, he wrote us and said he was interested in writing about his “progress” — and he put “progress” in quotes. We were all wishing for better news, and really couldn’t imagine this was a battle that would end this way.
Noel joined us and was introduced to us by Matt Sheffield at the founding of NewsBusters in 2005, and he became our Associate Editor. It must be said that no blogger here was more prolific and more popular. We’ll have more to say in the coming days.
Twitchy has some of the reaction from the blogosphere, RIP Noel Sheppard: Friends and readers mourn the loss of popular NewsBusters blogger.
Gone too soon.
Thoughts are with his friends and family.
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Rest in peace, Noel.
My condolences and prayers for his family, friends, and colleagues. He will be missed.
Shocker! RIP. Condolences to family. Will be missed.
RIP Noel. You will be missed.
It never seems fair.
Thank god for morphine.
May the Lord of Light shine his gaze upon those left behind my Noel and grant them the peace that Noel now knows. Amen.