Another translation: "All the bottom line pressure has forced us to lay off our regular photogs, so we have to use cheap immigrant labor to fill in. Our quality just ain't what it used to be..."
Ace of Spades concurs:
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.