journalists are not all robots
May 13th, 2008 at 07:09am Jennie Pollock
last night when i was driving home from work, i heard a story by melissa block from npr, who happened to be in china for a series she’s working on for next week.
thanks to a historic, devastating earthquake, she’s covering that instead.
at the site, you can hear the earthquake hitting “live” and people’s panic thereafter.
more moving is her tale of a shattered school, where many children lost their lives. block worked hard to keep her composure, as the scene was so somber. it’s a reminder of the struggle we have as journalists to report the news while showing compassion. and that journalists can be affected by stories. just like the niu student newspaper staffers during this year’s shootings. the dart center for journalism and trauma visited them recently. i know that some of our staffers were shook up from covering the story, too.
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4 Comments Add your own
1. Jane Doe | May 13th, 2008 at 7:41 am
Your title is misleading.
Which proves journalists are robots.
Just say, “Barack Hussuein Obama”. Wait!
DONT SAY HIS MIDDLE NAME JOURNALISTS.
This title should be “Some Journalists have compassion”.
I know of several journalists, one in Washington DC, who report it they way they are told to report it.
Give us reports on the TRUTH about the religion of Islam or the foolishness of “Hate Crime Laws” or the statistics on the life span of a male homosexual vs. a male heterosexual.
The average american is frustrated with you just as much as they are with this years election and the gas prices.
The media is not doing their job.
2. Leaf like a Tree | May 13th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
And the crazies come out of the woodwork….thanks for that nearly undecipherable rhetoric, Jane.
3. Jane Doe | May 14th, 2008 at 11:31 am
No crazy here, except to people who hate truth.
Tired of the constant barrage of misleading journalism.
You deciphered everything just fine.
4. thedudeabides | May 15th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Sounds crazy to me.
You criticize the newspaper for it’s take on the news, but then you come back and request for it to be covered the way YOU want it.
So which is it? You want a biased news, but biased in your direction?
Don’t want to be misled by shoddy journalism? Turn the page. Click the mouse. Change the channel. There’s good journalism out there.
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