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I reporter dicono i rapporti di guerra del blocchetto delle reti
Lunedì 23 giugno 2008
Da Brian Stelter | Ottenere una storia sulle notizie di sera non è facile per alcun corrispondente. E per i reporter in Irak e l'Afghanistan, è particolarmente duro, secondo Lara Logan, il corrispondente straniero principale per le notizie di CBS. Così ha inventato una soluzione quando sta comunicando con rete. “Che cosa dico è generalmente, `che sono tenuta il R.P.G. armor-piercing,'„ lei ultima settimana detta in un'apparenza “sull'esposizione quotidiana,„ riferendosi alle iniziali per la granata rocket-propelled.„ `Lo ha puntato sul capo dell'ufficio e se non mettete la mia storia sull'aria, sto andando tirare l'innesco. '„ Ms Logan ha lasciato uno sneak appena-scherzante sly di sorriso attraverso mentre ha parlato, ma il suo punto era serio. Cinque anni nella guerra in Irak e quasi sette anni nella guerra nell'Afghanistan, ottenente le notizie dei conflitti sulla televisione è più duri che mai. “Se dovessi guardare le notizie che sentite qui negli Stati Uniti, spegnerei appena ms dei miei cervelli perché lo guiderebbero dadi,„ Logan detto. Secondo i dati compilati da Andrew Tyndall, un consulente in materia che controlla i tre newscasts di sera della rete, riempimento della televisione di Irak “è stato regolato in maniera massiccia indietro questo anno.„ Quasi a metà strada in 2008, i tre newscasts hanno indicato 181 minuto di giorno della settimana di riempimento di Irak, rispetto a 1.157 minuti per tutto il 2007. “Le notizie di sera di CBS„ hanno dedicato Nightly i pochi minuti ad Irak, 51, contro 55 minuti sui ABC “notizie del mondo„ e 74 minuti “sulle notizie di NBC.„ (Il newscast medio di sera è 22 minuti di lunghezza.) Le notizie di CBS più non dispongono un singolo corrispondente a tempo pieno in Irak, dove circa 150.000 truppe degli Stati Uniti sono schierate. Paul Friedman, un vice presidente maggiore alle notizie di CBS, ad esempio che la divisione di notizie non convince i rapporti da Irak sulla televisione “con abbastanza frequenza per giustificare mantenere molto, ufficio molto grande a Bagdad.„ Ha detto che corrispondenti di CBS inscatola “ottiene in là molto rapidamente quando una storia la merita.„ In un'intervista del telefono ultima settimana, ms Logan ha detto che l'ufficio di notizie di CBS a Bagdad “drasticamente downsized„ nella molla. La rete ora mantiene un produttore nel paese, facente lo più di meno di un ufficio e di più di un ufficio. Interviews with executives and correspondents at television news networks suggested that while the CBS cutbacks are the most extensive to date in Baghdad, many journalists shared varying levels of frustration about placing war stories onto newscasts. “I’ve never met a journalist who hasn’t been frustrated about getting his or her stories on the air,” said Terry McCarthy, an ABC News correspondent in Baghdad. By telephone from Baghdad, Mr. McCarthy said he was not as busy as he was a year ago. A decline in the relative amount of violence “is taking the urgency out” of some of the coverage, he said. Still, he gets on ABC’s “World News” and other programs with stories, including one on Friday about American gains in northern Iraq. Anita McNaught, a correspondent for the Fox News Channel, agreed. “The violence itself is not the story anymore,” she said. She counted eight reports she had filed since arriving in Baghdad six weeks ago, noting that cable news channels like Fox News and CNN have considerably more time to fill with news than the networks. CNN and Fox each have two fulltime correspondents in Iraq. Richard Engel, the chief foreign correspondent for NBC News, who splits his time between Iraq and other countries, said he found his producers “very receptive to stories about Iraq.” He and other journalists noted that the heated presidential primary campaign put other news stories on the back burner earlier this year. Ms. Logan said she begged for months to be embedded with a group of Navy Seals, and when she came back with the story, a CBS producer said to her, “One guy in uniform looks like any other guy in a uniform.” In the follow-up phone interview, Ms. Logan said the producer no longer worked at CBS. And in both interviews, she emphasized that many journalists at CBS News are pushing for war coverage, specifically citing Jeff Fager, the executive producer of “60 Minutes.” CBS News won a Peabody Award last week for a “60 Minutes” report about a Marine charged in the killings at Haditha. On “The Daily Show,” Ms. Logan echoed the comments of other journalists when she said that many Americans seem uninterested in the wars now. Mr. McCarthy said that when he is in the United States, bringing up Baghdad at a dinner party “is like a conversation killer.” Coverage of the war in Afghanistan has increased slightly this year, with 46 minutes of total coverage year-to-date compared with 83 minutes for all of 2007. NBC has spent 25 minutes covering Afghanistan, partly because the anchor Brian Williams visited the country earlier in the month. Through Wednesday, when an ABC correspondent was in the middle of a prolonged visit to the country, ABC had spent 13 minutes covering Afghanistan. CBS has spent eight minutes covering Afghanistan so far this year. Both Ms. Logan and Mr. McCarthy noted that more coalition soldiers were killed in Afghanistan in May than in Iraq. No American television network has a full-time correspondent in Afghanistan, although CNN recently said it would open a bureau in Kabul. “It’s terrible,” Ms. Logan said in the telephone interview. She called it a financial decision. “We can’t afford to maintain operations in Iraq and Afghanistan at the same time,” she said. “It’s so expensive and the security risks are so great that it’s prohibitive.” Mr. Friedman said coverage of Iraq is enormously expensive, mostly due to the security risks. He said meetings with other television networks about sharing the costs of coverage have faltered for logistical reasons. Journalists at all three American television networks with evening newscasts expressed worries that their news organizations would withdraw from the Iraqi capital after the November presidential election. They spoke only on the condition of anonymity in order to avoid offending their employers. Have Your Say: Reporters Say Networks Block War Reports Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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