Tim Rutten is an American journalist with the L.A. Daily News. He worked for the Los Angeles Times for nearly 40 years between 1971 and 2011... (wikipedia)
Politics may have failed the people of New Orleans. ... But their newspaper and other important segments of the American press did not fail them.
They were, in the best sense of the word, enmeshed in each other's lives. As writers and people, they were one of those rare couples in which both people really appreciated in the other the things they appreciated in themselves.