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Coverage may not be ‘positive,’ but it’s important

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Based on letters to the editor, as well as notes I have received, there are some readers — responding to the newspaper’s coverage of Austin Stoner’s overdose and funeral service — who would have preferred space be devoted to more “positive” news.
phjeffburkhead“What a waste of front page space on a druggie,” one woman wrote. “If people want to be so stupid as to use drugs, they deserve the results. This death is one more…

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  1. Christy McElhaney
    May 22, 2009 at 11:22 am

    I am terribly sad to hear some of the comments that people have said about Austin Stoner. Plainly, these people are ignorant at the very least. I grew up in Moab, UT where drugs were very common and very easy to come by. Meth was a very popular choice of drug among the youth. I personally never tried it but a lot of my very close friends did. There is way more going on with a person who uses. For the most part they use to forget about how they feel inside, I will call them emotional disturbances. I feel that is what Austin had and using made him feel better. I am so glad that you do print these stories. It is our job as parents to communicate to our children and get very involved with their life and hope and pray that they made good choices for themselves. I know that we can’t protect them from the world but we can give them the tools to survive in it.

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