'A dark cloud lifts'

Yeah. My fault. Nowhere in the piece does the writer say or imply this.

Still, it's irritating to see The Times calling out the coverage of the "national news story" as forgetting the victim. Unless this is a thinly veiled, read-between-the-lines slap at Lynn Zinser, the reporter on the two previous Times stories linked to.

 

This leads to an overall larger question: On any story about a given topic, are there facts you are simply obligated to rehash? No matter what. It got me thinking when I read SI's cover piece on Adrian Peterson. No mention of his offseason arrest. Can you write a Ben Roethlisberger or Kobe takeout now without mention of their past? A Mile Leach piece and leave out his exit from Texas Tech? A Brisn Kelly story without, well, Declan Sullivan?

 

Yes. Know your audience.

 

I don't think you need an inventory of specific misery in every story about Declan Sullivan, but I certainly believe you need it in a story about the breadth and depth of his parents capacity to forgive.

 

Notre Dame whitewashed and the Sullivan family has moved on. Fail to find what is so special about the article. Then again,people here love the NY Times trends articles and think they represent national trends.
The article says the team prayed after thr lift fell. I seem to remember the team continuing to practice. Though my memory may be bad.

 

These Times feel good whitewash pieces are usually the domain of Karen Crouse.