Reply #110: It's a real shame most newspapers shut down their burueas in other countries, [View All]

and just rely on stringers from wire services, or as in broadcasting, "sister stations," as CNN does with either Globovision or one of their big ones.

You may remember the New York Times originally depended upon Francisco Toro to do their Venezuela assignments until it was learned he was deeply embedded as a member of the full blown oligarchy there, even belonged to an anti-Chavez NGO which receives big chunks of change from the U.S. taxpayers via NED, etc. Francisco Toro was discovered to be to twisted toward the oligarchy he became an embarrassment and he resigned, and runs his own virulently anti-Chavez blog.

Some time ago read about the reporter for Reuters, I think, who actually lifted his material for his articles from a Caracas TV news station. Just copied it. Sure saves wear and tear on the journalist, and he arrives rested and fresh for dinner at the end of a day!