How on earth do newsreaders not cry when they read such sad stories ?

[SunshineCake]

I have thought about this before but the news just now has prompted me to post, also might be a good topic for a live chat. Remember those ?

Ive started crying when Ive read stories in the metro on my way to work before. I don't think I'm a particularly overly sensitive, or emotional person.
The ones that springs to mind is a teenager from (i think) one of the scottish islands who died at the Ariana Grande concert, actually there were a few at that time. Also when Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were found. I'm tearing up at the thought of it as I type!

Also I remember being incredibly moved by a battle of britain veteran at the memorial events last year.
I actually found it slightly distasteful that many were interviewed and asked about the events when they obviously found it so incredibly painful to relive those memories. It was really sad.

Kate Silverton wept whilst presenting a report about a baby being rescued in Syria.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/emotional-kate-silverton-weeps-after-8951178.amp

Huw Edwards once sounded choked up when reading the end of a news story about a little boy who’d died. I think that’s the only time I’ve heard a newsreader get emotional. Not that I blame him in the slightest.

I was nearly crying listening about the identical twins (aged about 37) who both died of covid 19 this week....their younger sister was on the news and she was understandable very upset . Awful.

Sorry just seen someone else commented on this too

*@Clawdy who was the newsreader that died? I am from the North .

*@Fishfingersandwichplease that was the item that prompted this thread.

Not that I'm sure anyone is bothered but I don't sob, I just have tears in my eyes and feel sad. I don't cry for reasons I have said before. Tbh I'm scared I wouldn't stop if I started and not about stuff that doesn't affect me but my own stuff.

SunshineCake it was Dianne Oxberry, the weather presenter.

Thank you *@Clawdy. Such a sad thing to happen.

@IPityThePontipines

I remember it well. School was dismissed as soon as the news got out that he'd been shot. I arrived home just in time to see Cronkite's announcement. I was just a child but it's stayed with me. Probably more from my mother's being so upset as from 'Uncle Walter's' voice.

The Sky news presenter was tearing up earlier today when talking about some of the people that had passed away in the last day. She apologised and managed to go straight into interviewing someone but still had red eyes. I really felt for her. I don't think it's so much about professionalism. They are only human and I can imagine that once in a while something just hits you and you lose control.

I suspect it is easier not to cry than to laugh/smile at something amusing. The Channel 4 US correspondent had to take a very deep breath at one point last night when reporting on the Donald's medical misadvice. It was obvious she was really struggling to keep a straight face.