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Now that Queen Elizabeth II is at her rest, I am moved to make sense of the news coverage, not as a critic, but as a member of the audience.

I did not watch much of the live coverage or the special reports, but I caught the key elements as reported in my newspaper, on CNN, NPR, and, especially, NBC — on the “Today” show and the “Nightly News.”

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