I was a reporter. Sometimes you feel an obligation to let people know what is going on. Especially, when it is a national emergency.
There is a lot of contempt on this site for reporters...but you are listening to this broadcast because of them.
There were a lot of people on that day asking "WTF" and "HOW" and "WHY?" And reporters in the field have NO connection with what the broader knowledge is. You don't stop to think about questions that might make you "cringe" when buildings are collapsing and the Pentagon is under attack.
I don't understand folks who don't understand that.
Too bad the reporter in question did none of that. I don't need a reporter to defy evacuation orders to stay behind so that he can bring me the "scoop" that the Pentagon has been evacuated.
There is a lot of contempt on this site for reporters...but you are listening to this broadcast because of them.
"If it's not on tape, it didn't happen", huh? Nope, I am not listening to this broadcast because of the reporters. As the story breaks they are mostly getting it wrong. The story is not about the reporters being in peril, and in the case of the reporter in question, being in peril by his own choice. I am listening to them because that is what is available. Were the NORAD tapes from that day available instead, that is what I would be listening to.
There were a lot of people on that day asking "WTF" and "HOW" and "WHY?" And reporters in the field have NO connection with what the broader knowledge is. You don't stop to think about questions that might make you "cringe" when buildings are collapsing and the Pentagon is under attack.
Here's a clue: the story is not about the reporters. If the building you are in is under attack, the fire alarms are sounding, and they have given the evacuate order, YOU SHOULD EVACUATE, especially if the building is in danger of collapsing around you. If you wish to stay behind and help the injured, that is OK, but to stay behid so that you can hold the phone out the door of your office to let the audience hear the fire alarms, then there is reason for you to be held in contempt.
I don't understand folks who don't understand that.
I don't understand reporters who make themselves the center of a story rather than report the facts of the situation. He didn't need to go to his office to report the building was being evacuated. He could have reported that after leaving. But that wouldn't have made him the center of the story would it?