WARNING: Weingarten's best known as a humor writer, just as this is generally a lighthearted blog. There is nothing funny about this story. It will make you gasp. It will make you cry. It might make you mad. Whether you're a parent or not (and I'm not), it WILL haunt you, as it has me for the past 24 hours.
Some of you won't be able to get all the way through it. That's OK. If you do, read some of the comments following the story. See what you think, and feel free to comment.
And here's the transcript of Monday's live chat with Weingarten fielding questions about the story. Read the introduction for an important part of Weingarten's relationship to the story.
So why do I want you to read it? Because all journalists, if they've been at the game for a while, have at least one story that really gets to them, the ones you remember because they're so hard to do, so hard to write, so emotionally draining. I have my own, and I'll tell you about them at a later date. Weingarten admits this is the hardest story he's ever done. Beyond that, it's a stunning story, extraordinarily told, about a parent's worst nightmare -- causing the death of their child.
Sorry this one isn't funny. We'll get back to funny tomorrow, I promise.
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