Good point. Plus, when you use stringers, you have no idea how many masters he/she is serving.
Amen! IMHO Ace of Spades nails it:
The whole MSM has some explaining to do. But they will do no explaining, and ask no questions, and embargo the story, because they cannot admit that they have cut foreign budgets to such a degree [that] they now rely almost entirely on local stringers of questionable objectivity and integrity for the bulk of their foreign reportage.