At times of trauma, pay special attention to layout

The State in Columbia, S.C., did yeoman's work in covering last week's murder-suicide at the University of South Carolina.

But the front page the next day points out why in times of trauma, everyone has to be on high alert for issues in every part of the paper and website.

Might have wanted to rethink that lower hed:

Bad layout - Football players, sexual predators

One wonders if those laying out The (Columbia, S.C.) State today folded the paper in half, stepped back and took a look at the layout.

Hint: Always try to look at the page as two half pages, because that's how many of your readers will see it.

(Thanks to Augie Grant for the photo, which I was about to take when his arrived in my email.)