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Sunday, January 28 2007Foreign Bureaus, Diversity of Views Shrinking
All are cutting costs and shoring up local coverage. But what will the effects be? American Journalism Review's Sherry Ricchiardi raised one red flag: Many news organizations rushed reporters from far-flung locales to the Middle East when fighting erupted between Israel and Hezbollah. But there’s no substitute for coverage by correspondents based in a region and knowledgeable about its history and culture. And Inquirer columnist Trudy Rubin commented: The new mantra in the media industry is that mid-size papers must go local, local, local to grow circulation. Readers who want more foreign news can go to the Web. As The Inquirer's publisher, Brian Tierney, told Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz: "I can get what's going on in Iraq online. What I can't get is what's happening in this region."... Will the foreign bureaus be missed? Post your comments below. UPDATE Jan. 29: See also Washington Post columnist Fred Hiatt's take on vanishing foreign correspondents. UPDATE Jan. 29: Soccer Dad dissents.
TrackBackTrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Foreign Bureaus, Diversity of Views Shrinking: Comments"As this coverage shrinks, Americans' ability to assess government actions abroad will also shrink." Augean Stables thinks otherwise: While their post is about BBC behaviour it also mirrors the arrogance of others belonging to the MSM whose biased agenda has removed from the Americans the ability to "assess" government actions be it at home or abroad. "After all, the blogosphere is the river that Hercules sought in his fifth labo[u]r. Is the BBC part of the Stables that needs cleaning, or part of the encrusted horse manure that needs to wash downriver?" Post a comment[Comments are held for approval before appearing.]
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