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The Word For Steve Jobs: Visionary

Look at , listen to news broadcasts or search the Web today and the one word that comes up over and over again in reports about the is: visionary.

President Obama said of Jobs' passing that " ."

Fortune calls Jobs " y."

ABC °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ says Apple must now go on " ."

And Apple itself said the company has "lost a visionary and creative genius."

You rarely see such consensus about someone's legacy.

Program note: This evening on many NPR stations, David Greene will be hosting an hour-long special about Jobs.

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Mark Memmott is NPR's supervising senior editor for Standards & Practices. In that role, he's a resource for NPR's journalists – helping them raise the right questions as they do their work and uphold the organization's standards.