Posted on 04/06/2016 10:38:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
Hilde Kate Lysiak, a 9-year-old from Selinsgrove, PA, is the writer, editor, and publisher of the Orange Street News, a paper covering events in her hometown of just over 5,000. Recently, Lysiak got a tip from a credible source that there had been a murder in town, and like any journalist, she went to the scene, interviewed neighbors, and wrote a piece. She wound up breaking the story hours before other area newspapers reported the crime.
News Alert!- SUSPECTED MURDER!!!
Needless to say, some people were a little upset that a third grader was covering violent crime, and suggested that she play with dolls or have a tea party instead. Lysiak was (justifiably) offended by these comments, and recorded a video responding to her critics:
“If you want me to stop covering news, then you get off your computers and do something about the news. There, is that cute enough for you?”
Lysiak has been interested in journalism for a long time, and used to accompany her father, a former reporter for the New York Daily News, to the newsroom. She's put out 12 issues of the Orange Street News since she was 7. (Her first lead story was about the birth of her baby sister.) She has been covering crime stories since she was 8, although this was her first murder story.
Honestly, good for Lysiak for taking the initiative to follow her passion at such a young age, and shame on her detractors. I first became interested in journalism when I was about her age (I was 10, and I was inspired by the coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks) and I landed my first big interview (with then-Gov. John Baldacci at the opening of Southern Maine Community College) shortly after I turned 12. Nobody criticized me for my age then, and I'm lucky I had people who were willing to nurture my dreams rather than shut me down and tell me to go play with dolls. Hilde deserves the same treatment I got.
I bet this isn't the last we're going to see from Lysiak.
Way to Hilde, now what do you think of Trump?
Whether your praised or ground up and fed to the dogs
depends on your answer. Hint, do not say anything bad about
Trump or good about Cruz and you will be OK.
Sorry....she made a bad decision.
The news of my brother's death got out before we were notified. My mother heard it on the bus' radio on her way home from work. She staggered to the front door just as the police arrived.
“rather than trying to spin it”
Or making it up entirely.
Nice to read your personal story!
Beautiful... :)
The existing so-called journalism world is rife with bad decisions.
How many examples do you need?
Rumor, gossip, un-sourced or unverified literal propaganda...
Seriously?
It's "BOOM!"
Or, alternately, "BOMBSHELL!"
And let's not forget the tagline -
"...and then THIS happened!"
Guess being a reporter isn’t that hard.
You have all kinds of crime committed by democrats including treason and the professional journalists cover it up. They also will not decribe the murderers because of color.
They hate when some one new comes along and shows them for the lying hypocrites they are.
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