The caller Sherry refers to in her previous post had another concern. She thought it was inappropriate that the suicide-rate story continued to a page across from an advertisement with the headline “Doctor, I’m going to kill myself! . . .”
When the first papers from our state edition came off the press, members of the copy desk were aghast. They worked with our page designers to swap the rest of the suicide story with the rest of the truckers story.
That was an embarrassing juxtaposition, but we kept it out of the majority of our papers.