remote reporting

What’s wrong with this picture? (via TVNewser)

CNN is devoting the 12pm hour of Your World Today to the “new reality in Gaza.”

“Reporting on this situation from the Middle East include Atika Shubert in Jerusalem, Ben Wedeman in the West Bank and Aneesh Raman in Cairo, Egypt,” CNN says. “Offering analysis on and reaction to this political takeover are Christiane Amanpour from London, Elise Labott at the State Department, Kathleen Koch at the White House and Suzanne Malveaux in Crawford, Texas.”

Here’s what’s wrong with this picture: no one at CNN who will be “reporting” about  Gaza is actually in Gaza. No outsiders know what’s happening inside Gaza. Every “report” you hear will be hearsay, speculation, narrative framing, or something equally devoid of hard information.

Just sayin’.

cross-posted at How Infotaining.