The vanishing foreign correspondent
By Fred Hiatt | Monday, January 29, 2007 | The Washington Post
Prompted by the closure of the Boston Globe’s last three foreign offices, Fred Hiatt looks at the state of foreign correspondents in the US press. It turns out that this is the very issue that Jill Carroll was investigating when she was kidnapped. In a larger sense, this is about the concerning trend toward shrinking the big-city papers that have been the engine of American journalism for decades, scuttling their international efforts to maximize profits in an era with high competition from purely online news sources. Will they all morph into local papers with concession-stand news from abroad, supplied by the lowest bidder? Or no world news, period? In a word, ARRRGGGHHHH….BS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/28/AR2007012801050.html
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