[Capt. Tom]

In the past few days we have been bombarded with colourful reports of events in eastern Aleppo, written or transmitted by people in Beirut (180 miles away and in another country), or even London (2,105 miles away and in another world).

This has been a pet peeve of mine; news outlets bringing in people who couldn't know whats going on on the ground because they are no way near the action.

Fox news did this in the downing of missing flight 370 in Indonesia and CNN knocked Fox's ratings down by CNN actually putting on people close to the action, who knew something about the situation.
Another trick is to use people with British accents to tell Americans what's going on.
Like we don't have Americans gathering news anywhere.
Who knows maybe we don't anymore. - Tom

[KC Burke]

Hi, old timer. Good to see your post.

[Nextrush]

The budgets have been cut big time at many news organizations as ad revenue for television and newspapers dry up.

BBC brings in money from their cable revenues for “BBC World News” (the charge to the cable company for service every month) helping them to field a large force of reporters around the world.

CNN created worldwide service and coverage in its formative years including partnerships with local broadcasters in countries from Argentina to Turkey and many more.