They Are Real People

   Several weeks ago I got curious about a Fox News show host. Greta Van Susteren was the lead on the weekly 7 PM show, On The Record, which she hosted for years. I am not sure of all the reasons, but she was let go, or she quit suddenly.

   Regardless of all that, I was curious as to what she was doing now. She had been at Fox News for 14 years after coming over from CNN. So, I found her Facebook page and began following her there.

   Right now it seems that she is traveling with Franklin Graham and his Samaritians Purse team around the world. She has posted from Burma and Jordan in recent days.

   But this post is not about Greta, but about a story that she posted on Fb the other day. It concerns another Fox News reporter, Catherine Herridge, who deals with intelligence and security.

   Again, this is not about her reporting, which is no nonsense and direct, but about her personally.

   We see a woman reporting on a News show and think that is all she is. But we know that a person is much more than that. She is a wife and mother with two children.

   Greta's story was about Catherine's second child, who is 10 now, and the fact that Peter was born with a serious liver aliment. The only hope for the newborn was a tissue transplant, and the donor he was matched with was his mother. The procedure was iffy for both baby and mother, but her comment at the time was that she was more than willing to risk death to see her son live.

   They both did.

   Now, when I see Herridge on TV, I don't just see a competent news reporter on a big TV News Channel, but a wife and mother who was willing to sacrifice all for her child.

   That is the real News.

   Thanks, Greta