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Seeing Black and POC reporters sharing, it makes me reflect on my reporting from Bundy Ranch during the standoff. When I went home I told my editors these guys will be back, that this was a movement. I wanted to report more. Some listened, but others said the story was over.
Editors make tough calls. Sometimes, they get it wrong and that comes with the territory. But I do wonder the extent a white editor doesn't see the threat of white nationalism in the same way I did, an ethnic Asian having to go up to militia guys with guns for interviews.
I've never talked about this publicly, but now seems an apt and instructional time to do so. And every reporter has been there at one point — when you just know something is a story, you're overruled, and then it becomes a story and you are like 
. Cassandra.
. Cassandra.
But yeah — I've never been able to entirely let go of that. Going to Bundy Ranch, talking to Southern Poverty Law Center after that, getting ON THE PHONE with Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers who agreed to an interview, and then being told the story was "over."
Thank you to the editors (you know who you are!) who tried to advocate on my behalf. It didn't work out, but knowing I was believed really matters! And these supporters were white editors, which is why I say this is not an issue that's clear cut.
