Journalists are confusing

Well, I'm taking to my blog to explain something:

Journalists are confusing.

I was talking with someone the other day about how journalists have weird ways of dealing with tragedy. As I'm sure most of you know, there was a mass shooting at Fort Hood on Thursday. I was targeted as the person who would be the web point person for all the reporters. I wrote all the stories, I shared those stories out with all 13 of our stations nationwide. That means, literally, over a million people at least were reading my article. Needless to say, stressful.

But, journalists are weird. They try to joke or laugh about things so that they don't cry. If you cry on camera, that is hands down the worst thing you can do as a journalist. It's like when Anderson Cooper went to New Orleans and cried at the damage of Katrina. His job is to not show HIS emotion, but to show emotion.

So, during these tragic events at Fort Hood, I was simultaneously proud of my work, but also really upset that I even had to write about such an event.

I just wanted to explain that we aren't callous. We just try to deal with death, corruption and destruction in a way that won't make us suicidal. If you think news is depressing, you should read it all the time everyday. It's tiring.

Here's my recent story on the Fort Hood shootings.