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Actress Natasha Richardson died. She was famous enough for the freak accident that killed her to attract airtime; not famous enough to warrant an obituary for her thespian career. Accordingly NBC and ABC both assigned a medical reporter, not an arts correspondent, to cover the conundrum of her death: "How can a vibrant 45-year-old woman die from a simple fall, barely moving, on a bunny slope, a beginner's hill?" ABC's John McKenzie wondered. She was not wearing a helmet, he noted, "but few skiers think of brain damage on something so innocent." NBC's in-house physician Nancy Snyderman told us that the injury that killed Richardson, in which blood gets trapped by the skull and compresses the brain, "is rare in midlife. Those at highest risk are young children and adults aged 75 and older."
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