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Re: Russian health care

Chris Doss wrote:
>Don't even get me started on the truly crap reporting on Russia that
>goes on in Western newspapers. For one thing, they interview the
>same goddamn people all the time. ....
 
Doug:
Part of the problem is that few NYT reporters in Moscow actually
speak Russian beyond a rudimentary level. And even the occasional one
who does doesn't feel comfy with the popular characters you mention -
the pro-Western liberals are just their kind of people.

Me:
isn't it a policy of the NYT and similar sources to move their reporters from country to country so that they never "go native" and actually gain perspective outside of the US mainstream?
Jim D.
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