I find it absolutely hilarious that Noam Chomsky is, at the time of posting, not yet dead but two “reputable” papers that tend to “support” the “left” have both published obituaries.
Jacobin published one and, upon realising he's not dead, changed the headline to reflect that. They just wanted to “celebrate” him, that's all. Never mind the fact they didn't change any of the past tense in the body paragraphs or the references to how there “never will be another like him.” (Except there will be. There will be many. He was not unique or special; he was not some Great Man. He was simply well-placed.)
Then, upon further inspection to see if he really had died, there was a fully retracted New Statesman article written by Yanis Varoufakis; it was archived, which made that an easy task to track. But if anything ever did feel like someone who ran a cult of personality and was using the cults of personality around others, that did. Sometimes it feels as if people give Yanis far more credit than he deserves.
It probably won't be long for Chomsky, which is just as life goes. But the least people could do is wait for him to die and to get a statement from his family before they hit publish.