ABSTRACT
As a relatively regular reader of USA Today in the late 1990s, I routinely turned to the “Life” section. I searched for Hainer’s name, hoping for another article about her experiences with breast cancer, dreading possible bad news. To be honest, before her first column in the series on March 10, 1998, I was unfamiliar with Hainer’s work as a journalist. I didn’t know anything about her as a person, an individual with friends, family, colleagues, and a family history of breast cancer. As a reader of a national news publication, I would not have perceived any of that information as my business.
