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Originally posted by 33girl
I wasn't ragging on ALL media, just AC because of his privileged upbringing and that he might not be the best person to send to this neck of the woods.
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I understand why you would think that, but poverty isn't a prerequisite for being a reporter.
I've never been a reporter, but I've been onsite at some pretty major stories -- including a major airline crash where parts of the aircraft were still intact and there were bodies still inside. Unlike most scenes like that, we were allowed within 50 feet or so of the plane. It's remarkably intense and can be very confusing -- especially early on. It's really difficult to filter the facts from rumors.
It seems to me that what made this coverage fall apart is that the "officials" allowed themselves to be overrun by the rumor mill and became one of the catalysts for the confusion.
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