Possibly he envies the man who has a front seat and who tells him about it.

And if you envy a man, when that man comes to grief it is only human nature to laugh.
You have seen unhappy small boys outside a baseball park, and one happy boy inside on the highest seat of the grand stand, who calls down to them why the people are yelling and who has struck out.

Do the boys on the ground love the boy in the grand stand and are they grateful to him?
No.
Does the fact that they do not love him and are not grateful to him for telling them the news distress the boy in the grand stand?
No.

For no matter how closely he is bottled up, how strictly censored, "deleted," arrested, searched, and persecuted, as between the man at home and the correspondent, the correspondent will always be the more fortunate.

He is watching the march of great events, he is studying history in the making, and all he sees is of interest.