The column, published during the holiday week, points to recent tragic shootings and notes in the field of journalism, “horrific news is the expectation, not the exception.”
But, Carroll writes, reporters often “witness trauma directly,” causing it to “seep into your very being.”
These are valid observations, but the column goes a bit off the rails when the author argues that “journalists are under attack like no other time in American journalism” because of their coverage of the pandemic, along with racism and misogyny in America.
Carroll even finds an expert to suggest journalists carry trauma “on our souls.”
"Journalists carry trauma 'on our souls'," USA TODAY Editor in Chief Nicole Carroll for @usatodayopinion. “Our industry, of course, is not the only one. Health care workers, educators, first responders and many others face new pressures.”https://t.co/J0Dq1McFdw
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) November 23, 2022
