9-year-old reporter breaks crime news, posts videos, fires back at critics

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel wow what a statement, very inspiring! Good read and share.

Me being Army Public Affairs, I only wish my Soldiers had half the drive as this 9-year-old girl!

I did look through it, I can certainly appreciate her obviously being, quite clearly, a prodigy at electronic journalism; however, that being said, while obviously both cute, as well, perhaps, as linguistically gifted, I only question perhaps, as mentioned in the piece, the wisdom, logic, and or suitability, of letting someone so young be given essentially free rein to write about, as also mentioned in the piece, such quite clearly graphic material. I can clearly perceive the wisdom that being so allowed, albeit, hopefully, under parental supervision, might help develop her intellect as well as cultivate her linguistic ability as well, yet, I nevertheless might perhaps find disconcerting the concept of one so young being allowed to be exposed to circumstances of such a graphic nature. I understand, I think, both the reasons, as well as the object; however, the type of material discussed in the piece about which she quite clearly seems to be allowed to write about might not, in my view, exactly be considered the typical content of an elementary school newspaper and or curriculum, that's all I'm trying to say? Brilliant? Yes, certainly, without question, I think within reason, perhaps. Ultimately desirable from a sociologic or psychological perspective? There, I'd need, I think, to perhaps reflect a trifle more, for awhile, as, quite honestly, I just don't know. To me, I think, as I try to reflect on the concept overall, I think, perhaps, that while to expect kids in the present era to be as simplistic in mindset as might have been the case before the web is, in all likelihood, albeit i think, regrettably, perhaps expecting too much as a reactionary trend, to encourage kids to view journalism they ought perhaps to be writing about at that age range, while admittedly realistic, is, nevertheless, one that might give adults and I think perhaps quote understandably, a good many qualms, that's all I'm trying to bring out. My wife and I have both seen TV programs of kids, admittedly brilliant, interviewed on late night programming; some viewers might perhaps think such things cute, perhaps understandably. I've also, however, seen kids, really young ones, competing on adult level game shows, and or talent competitons, doing everything from musical competition, to cooking, e.g.; I hardly consider that, as a purely personal outlook, admittedly, as being in the same vein, perhaps, as a major spelling bee competition, for example. I'm reminded as I type this of the film Searching for Bobby Fischer, as I think about such competitions. To expose kids, however precocious and or gifted they may be, to adult competitive environments, or such environments for kids fashioned originally for adults, is, to my mind, comparable to beauty pageants for kids, as well, at least, to my mind, after a fashion. One tends to wonder, in watching such programming, whether the parents of such kids are, in truth, doing it to vicariously relive their own lives through the lives of their kids, and, in reading the piece here, I am obviously compelled, to no small extent, to wonder basically the same sort of thing, if you will. I realize I might certainly not be agreed with, by any means; however, those are my thoughts about the whole topic, that I thought might, if nothing else, engender some thought on the whole topic, I hope it was of at least some interest, and would of course welcome any thoughts, many thanks.