Q: In your view, reporting from the hothouse of the Middle East - where every comment, choice of visual coverage, reporting nuance and even on-screen gesture is analysed - in the digital age (with bloggers and instant comment etc) has become easier? Or more difficult? Eamonn O'Neill, Innerleithen, Scotland
To which he responds:
It is no more easy or difficult now than it was 15 years ago when I first reported from the Middle East. There is a great deal more background noise, but I tune it out.
That's curious. While one accepts that of course he can't make everyone happy, by "tuning out" what might also be reasonable critiques, how does he hope to learn to be a better reporter? Even those of us out here who create the obviously inconvenient "background noise" are willing to endure and take on board (sometimes not very nice) critiques of what we do.
¶ by Robert, 7/27/2006 12:01:00 PM
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