You don’t expect to see a picture of a dead plumber drenched to the bone in muck in a newspaper, or on TV or the Web for that matter.
But there, running across four columns in the December 21, 2003, edition of the New York Times, was a photo of Patrick Walters, 22 years old, being hauled from a collapsed trench by two firefighters. Below were close-ups of his mother, who says she battles fantasies of revenge, and his father, who wants to move to Washington and lobby against OSHA until the day he dies, according to the article.