Participation

I think a journalist should report an event with details and some people’s thinking and opinion. Also, capturing pictures and videos are important. I think it doesn't matter if a journalist put his emotion into it. But putting an emotion that is appropriate and will not offend anyone is the most crucial part. If a journalist participates in an event, then apparently he or she is also a participant who actually understands the situation and what other participants think. It is actually impossible to pay a journalist to join an event and be an observer because he or she has to participate to observe. As a journalist participates in an event, he will not just report plainly. Instead, the journalist would report with his emotions and his understanding toward the event deeply and emotionally.

To report a disaster without emotionally involved is barely possible. While interviewing the victims, a journalist, if he is still a hearted human, must feel sympathy for them. Seeing people loss home, loss family, catch cold, and have nothing to eat, I believe a journalist cannot simply hide his emotions. I think the only way to hide the emotions is to accumulate experience and let one’s mind go numb.  But that would be a cold-blooded thing to do – to destroy a person’s heart completely. Hence, I think adding emotions in a relevant time and place would be the best a journalist can do.