A year into pandemic, some in media tell individual stories
Associated PressNEW YORK — The emotional center of Nicolle Wallace’s MSNBC show often comes at the very end, when statistics are set aside to tell the story of a life cut short by COVID-19. So we don’t do a lot of those.” For the Times, the obvious precedent is the memorable “Portraits of Grief” thumbnail sketches of people who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. “These are people we wouldn’t normally write obituaries about,” said Daniel J. Wakin, senior editor at the Times. The author of “Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief” said the first time he set up an online grief session for families of COVID-19 victims, some 1,000 people showed up. “No one has ever had a loved one die of cancer and heard someone say, ‘you know, I don’t believe in cancer,’” Kessler said.
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