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The posters telling the LW that journalism isn't for him plainly don't know anything about it (even after reading CT's reply, which indicates to me that these posters are not cut our for journalism themselves--the ability to read background is kind of important). One kind of journalism is standing in the pack outside the courtroom, but there's many variations besides that.
I was a journalist for many years, and didn't do uncomfortable questions because I did technology how-to journalism, writing about the technology but not about quarterly results or anything like that, let alone about how the victim's family feels about the murderer being acquitted. Asking questions there is a matter of talking to the right person and letting your enthusiasm show through. Ask intelligent questions, and you'll get more data than you can absorb--and learn a lot in the process.
