Nine-year-old US reporter defiant after critics say 'go back to playing with dolls'

[Polyxo]

When I was a 9 year old girl, I was not reporting on murder. I was pretending my toy people (dolls I guess) were getting murdered. By dinosaurs. Jurassic Park stuff was cool.

[Laurabelle]

The so-called criticism was largely from random internet folks posting on youtube and so forth. If you're producing content on the internet, no matter who you are or what sort of content it is this is extremely typical. In fact, I would have to say the criticisms were fairly mild compared to what I would have expected. So I'm not really buying that this is some arduous plight upon this young person's dreams and what-not.

If they are old enough to cope with and report upon death and murder, than surely they are mature enough to cope with anonymous internet criticisms and trolls.

[ComputerNerd]

Yet it is perfectly acceptable when a 9 year old is required to be a carer for other members of their family.
Just a bunch of hypocrites upset that a 9 year old can make their own choices, and to be a better person than they are.

[kail]

Covering murder's? IDK. I thought those details were confidential until the case was closed.

Otherwise I'm impressed. I was just playing Pokemon and watching junk TV at that age.

[May90]

I don't mind the thread, of course... But are a few phrases on Facebook and Youtube really considered newsworthy these days?

[Shibito]

Its funny how you call support her and cheer on her lol. Fact is obviously cops wont take a 9 year old with a play paper seriously. They sometimes dont even answer news stations why the hell would they answer a play paper journalist.

[Dequanacus]

Someone being suspect to negative comments on the internet? How newsworthy.

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Yet it is perfectly acceptable when a 9 year old is required to be a carer for other members of their family.
Just a bunch of hypocrites upset that a 9 year old can make their own choices, and to be a better person than they are.

I'm not sure how you can attribute these assumptions to what is basically anonymous commentary. For all we know, you made all those accounts. Making a fuss about these sorts of things is just blowing hot air.

[apepi]

I decided to look up her work on this, she did a pretty good job it seems to me.

[Gheld]

I decided to look up her work on this, she did a pretty good job it seems to me.

I poked around her website for a bit and she's really got a gift for this.

[Jotaux]

It's odd that the media is reporting on irrelevant things like youtube comments while a 9 year old girl is doing legitimate journalism on a murder investigation.

[Tennis]

"Her website" what? She's 9.

FFS. @Tennisace This is neither new, interesting, or worth my time(probably not worth anyone elses either). A more appropriate title for the article "9 year old does stuff - People React"

Several people on here thought it was interesting. This is the 5th-6th most popular article today.