A reader e-mailed me after he received last month’s issue of Contractor magazine, Supply House Times’ sister publication. He wanted to know why I had felt it necessary to run a story about the shootings in August at a Ferguson Enterprises branch in Alabama on the front page of that newsmagazine.
He probably had similar questions about why we had run the story in Supply House Times because he told me that no one outside Ferguson and the small town where the incidents occurred really needed to know what had happened. He wondered whether we had put the story where we did to sell more magazines. Or, he suggested, “Maybe the story was supposed to be a wakeup call for all of your readers to get them to do a thorough psychological screening of their employees, especially their truck drivers.”