good for you young woman… perhaps you could talk to Ana Marie Cox… you bear an amazing resemblance…
keep up the good work!!!
Sort of like watching Tiger Woods playing golf when he was 9. You knew he was going to be great. She looks like a super star in the making.
FFS, when a young kid is intensely interested in doing something it’s something to encourage—often you’ve got a prodigy in the making, or at least someone with the motivation to get a great head start on a career. Between popular culture and the real world as portrayed in the media, there are horrors aplenty that everyone’s children are being steeped in all day every day. I think a mature 9-year-old can handle writing about a murder. Good for you, Hilde, keep it up and good luck.
I can see this 9 year old changing the definition of an “investigative reporter”. Best thing is, she’s getting her knowledge from grassroots her dad. I think she’s great and should be encouraged to do news reporting. The way I see it, is that its no different than recognizing a child musical prodigy. Keep up the good work Hilde!
Go, Hilde! One thing this world needs A LOT MORE OF is real reporters with real guts to go after real stories. This girl is going to save the world some day. She’s a goddess.
OK, she’s 9. Did she get the story right?
Good for this kid. Lord knows I was more concerned with saving the princess and practicing my “up up down down left right left right b a start” for speed at her age.
“I can’t imagine how a 9-year-old can cover a story like that.”
Who fucking cares? I mean, we watch adult professionals shit the bed covering “stories like that” all day every day. Let the kid have her fun. It doesn’t even matter if she gets it right. All that matters is she’s LEARNING.
I can see there being some questions here – there are stories I wouldn’t want most adults to cover, much less a 9-year-old kid. But as soon as the alternative is dolls and tea parties, the real agenda of the complainers is pretty clear.
Give 'em hell, Hilde!
Didn’t people used to take their kids to public hangings…not that I’m saying that was good or we should return to that, but 9 year olds know some folks kill other folks.
At the age of 4 Mozart could hear a piece of music and then play it. He wrote his first symphony at age 8. Pablo Picasso began to paint at age 12. Da Vinchi started his stuff at age 15. Karl Benz started building shit at age 15 and Jackie Cooper won a Best Actor Oscar at age 9. Yo-Yo Ma waited until he was 5 to start performing and Malala Yousafzai was an over the hill 17 when she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
What a shame.
I can’t get upset about a child being exposed (very much voluntarily and with parental support and guidance) to adult situations. The thing so many people don’t get is that every child is going to be associating almost exclusively with adults for most of their lives; the sooner they understand the adult culture, horrors and all, the better they can understand, cope and protect themselves, not to mention have a chance at success. It beats the heck IMO out of sequestering children with just overprotected, over-programmed age-mates and chaperones in unrealistic settings, until suddenly they’re independently mobile in their impulsive, id-driven and ignorant teens, when they get drunk on “freedom” and do utterly stupid (at best) things. Let these “concerned” people go look into… oh, say, the foster care systems, parental abuse, child sex slavery, etc. That should keep them plenty busy while this youngster grows up with a helluva lot of savvy and and confidence. Go, girl! And thumbs up to a great family.
I imagine she did. She’ll start fucking up after she learns about anonymous sources and carrying water in Journalism school.
Hmmm… if they don’t want her covering that kind of news, then they shouldn’t be making it.
Anybody ever read the original Grimm fairy tales? They are gruesome.
Well adjusted kids can handle more than most adults realize. It is a fairly recent development that parents started to keep their children in a shrink-wrapped Disney world.
It says something about our society when a 9 year old girl is more socially aware and mature than a high percentage of her elders, especially when that is not a consequence of “parentification,” as it too often is. She appears to come from a very healthy, supportive family. More power to her.
Lord knows we need more reporters and less stenographers in journalism.
Backlash? How can there possibly be a backlash? If anything, it should encourage these people to get their GEDs.
If some of our so-called “adult” investigative journalists would do their jobs, nine-year-old girls wouldn’t have to.