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So reporters should just stay in their hotels? That's where the real story is taking place, not on the streets?

• ck2 16y ago
  No that's not what I said or meant. Walking into the middle of the crowd of thugs and holding a mic/camera to them and asking why they are being violent, and then getting beaten by them, that's purposely making yourself part of the story and you can't pretend to be surprised. But interviewing someone on the scene who was hurt by the thugs is being a reporter. Injecting yourself in the middle of the fight and knowing you are likely to get beaten is making yourself part of the story and not proper reporting. Which do you think is proper reporting during a hurricane? Interviewing someone whose home was just flattened for what their experience was and now means to them OR setting up a camera and filming yourself jumping out into 100mph winds to get blown away?
  • shaggyfrog 16y ago
    What a stupid analogy. You can't interview a hurricane. But you can interview the people involved in a revolution. Isn't that a reporter's job?