more idiocy

[dave dorkin]

At one point when I was living in Italy, I went to
look into freelance work at the NY Times bureau in
Rome. The "correspondant," who spoke virtually no
Italian, also covered the South of France, Yugoslavia,
Switzerland and much of North Africa (and did not
speak any of those related languages of course).
American correspondants are legendary for their
occasional trips to the press association where they
are "informed" by the local journalists (in addition
to the embassy as Doug mentions). Ignorant and lazy.

Dave

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:

  The NY Times has had only a handful of fluent
> Russian speakers in its  Moscow bureau for years &
years, and Moscow has long been an  important
assignment. I think the reason is that they don't care
what  ordinary people think or talk about - all that
matters is what the  local elite (which speaks
English) and the U.S. embassy thinks.

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