One of the NY Times blogs is reporting that of the "major" news networks, only CNN and ABC had reporters on the ground in Pakistan to cover Bhutto’s assassination yesterday.
This seems crazy to me. I mean, it’s long since past time that we stop thinking of the TV networks as major news-gathering organizations, but not having people on the ground in Pakistan is embarrassing. Imagine if we had no reporters on the ground in England in 1942.
Either cover the news, or not, but for Toqueville’s sake, don’t fake it.
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I just found this written in a blog:
“Either cover the news, or not, but for Toqueville’s sake, don’t fake it.”
Irony makes me smile.
-danny
The only english-language media I can count on consistently to have reporters ‘in-country’ – reporters who know the locals and know how the news is really playing *on the spot* are NPR and BBC.
Sad that the so-called “news channels” stink at this so much.
How CAN they go to Pakistan? They’re all at the SF zoo making sure no tiger attack goes under-reported.