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De verslaggevers zeggen de Rapporten van de Oorlog van het Blok van Netwerken
Maandag, 23 Juni, 2008
Door Brian Stelter | Krijgen van een verhaal op het avondnieuws is niet gemakkelijk voor overeenkomstig. En voor verslaggevers in Irak en Afghanistan, is het vooral hard, volgens Lara Logan, de belangrijkste buitenlandse correspondent voor CBS Nieuws. Zo heeft zij een oplossing bedacht wanneer zij aan het netwerk spreekt. „Over het algemeen is wat ik zeg, `ik pantser-doordringt R.P.G. houd,'“ zij zei vorige week in een verschijning op de „Dagelijkse Show,“ verwijzend naar de initialen voor raket-aangedreven granaat.“ `Het heeft de dienstleider beoogd, en als u mijn verhaal op de lucht niet zet, ga ik de trekker trekken. '“ Mej. Logan liet een sly enkel-kidding glimlach door heimelijk nemen aangezien zij sprak, maar haar punt was ernstig. Vijf jaar in de oorlog in Irak en bijna zeven jaar in de oorlog in Afghanistan, dat nieuws van de conflicten op televisie krijgt zijn harder dan ooit. „Als ik het op nieuws moest letten dat u hier in de Verenigde Staten hoort, zou ik enkel mijn hersenen uit blazen omdat het me noten,“ Mej. zou drijven. Bovengenoemd Logan. Volgens gegevens die door Andrew Tyndall, een televisieadviseur worden gecompileerd die de drie netwerkavond newscasts controleert, is de dekking van Irak „massaal geschraapt terug dit jaar.“ Bijna halverwege in 2008, hebben drie newscasts 181 weekdagennotulen van de dekking van Irak getoond, die met 1.157 minuten voor elk van 2007 worden vergeleken. Het „CBS Nieuws van de Avond“ heeft meest fewest notulen aan Irak, 51, tegenover 55 minuten op het „Nieuws van de Wereld“ van ABC en 74 minuten op „NBC- Nightly Nieuws.“ gewijd (De gemiddelde avond newscast is lang 22 minuten.) CBS de posten van het Nieuws niet meer één enkele full-time correspondent in Irak, waar zowat 150.000 troepen van Verenigde Staten worden opgesteld. Paul Friedman, een hogere ondervoorzitter bij CBS Nieuws, zei de nieuwsafdeling geen rapporten van Irak over televisie „met genoeg frequentie ertoe brengt om het houden van een zeer, zeer groot dienst in Bagdad te rechtvaardigen.“ Hij zei CBS de correspondenten „kunnen binnenkomen daar zeer snel wanneer een verhaal het.“ verdient In een telefoongesprek vorige week, Mej. Logan zei de CBS dienst van het Nieuws in Bagdad „drastisch“ van in de lente de omvang werd gereduceerd. Het netwerk houdt nu een producent in het land, dat het maakt minder van een dienst en meer van een bureau. 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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