posted on Nov, 8 2016 @ 11:50 PM
a reply to:
TheBulk
Of course they're invested. Just because you become a reporter doesn't mean that you stop having personal opinions and emotions. Yes, under normal
circumstances they should at least appear to be impartial, but do you really think they ever stop being human? What's happening tonight is anything
but "normal circumstances". Would you say the same of Walter Cronkite when he broke down while announcing the death of JFK, the many reporters who
cried on air over the sight of Syrian children bloodied and dying or Dan Rather and Jon Stewart breaking down on air on 9/11/01?
In my mind, they are lifting the veil and showing that they are Americans first and reporters second. If there's any time to do it, this will be one
of those occasions. Our entire political system could change tonight and whereas I understand the discontent and anger of the majority over our
current broken system, we have no idea what this might mean for our future. Yes, it's one of those times to be an American first. I'm sure there will
be reprocussions for those reporters in the days to come, but I don't think it proves anything relative to their being mindless cogs. It shows just
the opposite.