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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 --- 78 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wiredbeyond/~3/314672211/journalism-isnt.html
 http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/2008/06/ipi_2008_glenny_attacks_bbc_fo.html Roy Greenslade IPI 2008: Glenny attacks BBC for placing foreign correspondents under pressure June 17, 2008 11:15 AM Former BBC correspondent Misha Glenny launched a forthright attack on the corporation today for the pressures it places on its reporters, and for hiring correspondents without the appropriate knowledge of the countries in which they operate. "When I started at BBC, the model of a foreign correspondent was of a slightly detached boffin," he said. "These people were like the Mark Tullys of this world, who knew everything about India and everybody worth knowing in the Indian elite. "That's all gone. The reporters who know their country now are rare phenomena. What the BBC needs now are young, enthusiastic, energetic people prepared to speak to the World Service one minute, then file 600 words for online and go on to Five Live straight after for a two-way. In such conditions basic reporting, let alone investigative reporting, is impossible." (((I've often thought and sometimes even said such things, and I think they are true things, and they are true of things other than journalism. For instance, try to talk to analog musicians about ProTools, or talk to librarians about Google searches. Furthermore, if you go to India and try to find an "Indian elite" that you can talk to like a boffin, they're all busily trading SMS messages with Sarko ... |
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