Columbian
"But I felt it was important to run," says
Lou Brancaccio. He told his designer not to place the
photo of a mother grieving over her son's skateboarding death at the top of the front page and not to play it too big. "Despite those who will claim that we [published] it because the press is sensational or that we wanted to profit from this tragedy, it simply is not the case. We did it because there is a much larger issue at play here: Learning from a tragedy."
