Being a reporter is a license to be a bitch?

The poor babe, she never saw it coming:

They have been especially quick to focus criticism on Aguilar for asking this two-time shooter: "Are you a trigger-happy kind of person? Is that what you wanted to do, shoot to kill?"

They conveniently disregard how she balanced her hard line of questioning by following it with the sympathetic: "So basically you were scared for your life?"

The last thing Aguilar expected after such a routine interview was that her professional career would be at risk

Let's imagine this a little differently. A white male reporter leans into the car of an old woman who has been similarly traumatized, making her feel like her space is being violated. On two separate occasions, she managed to kill a man who broke into her home with the intent to rape her. Maybe one of them actually did rape her. So you've got a woman who's been nearly sexually violated, or has been violently sexually violated on up to two separate occasions, that weren't far apart. The reporter asks "so, you're a murderous old woman, quick to take out a man's throat with a steak knife? Is that what you intended to do, give him a Colombian necktie?" But it's ok because he says, "well, they were trying to rape you, so basically you were scared out of your mind.

There would be only three realistic outcomes for the reporter who behaved like that after the mainstream media and blogosphere were done with him:

• Change his name, move out of the area, get plastic surgery and switch professions
• Leave the country
• Suicide

Because there would no way that he'd ever be a reporter for any mainstream media group short of him coming out of the closet, saying 10,000 hail Marxes and promising to scoop the poop for every major feminist blogger's cats for life.