We'd really have to examine our motives for that. Some of our readers would call my criteria for front-page news insensitive. I didn't worry about his career, his family. And I won't take responsibility for the story's impact on those things. I guess that difference in perspective is what most often puts the media in the public's doghouse.
Human nature is funny.
When bizarre events happen, they dominate conversations in restaurants, stores, offices, banks and newsrooms. It's not only fair, it would shed insight to the stresses of dentistry. To our surprise, we learned dentistry is quite a stressful line of work. We were turned away by the family. As it turned out, the story did not destroy the man's practice.