Isn't this what Rush always talks about re journalism majors - they all want to make a difference instead of reporting the freaking news.
An abiding sense of inadequacy and inferiority comes through loud and clear in the writing of most journalists. It'd be nice if they worked out their issues privately with a therapist instead of splashing them all over the newspapers in their self-indulgent pontifications. But that's the career trajectory -- they go to a major event and think the crowd came out just to see and listen to them. The world is only about them and their career aspirations and ambitions. Nobody else's rights or feelings matter -- only their own, because they're going straight to the top at the New York Times (fill in your local newspaper here.)