Monday, June 23, 2008
If you report the news in the forest
And no one wants to hear it, is it news? The NY Times has a look at how difficult it is to get any news from Iraq or Afghanistan on the air.
Getting a story on the evening news isn’t easy for any correspondent. And for reporters in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is especially hard, according to Lara Logan, the chief foreign correspondent for CBS News. So she has devised a solution when she is talking to the network.Of course, she was the one who said she would blow her brains out if she had to watch the news that you people watch daily. Look, a missing white woman!!
“Generally what I say is, ‘I’m holding the armor-piercing R.P.G.,’ ” she said last week in an appearance on “The Daily Show,” referring to the initials for rocket-propelled grenade. “ ‘It’s aimed at the bureau chief, and if you don’t put my story on the air, I’m going to pull the trigger.’ ”
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