The Future of Journalism

I always say to a new foreign correspondent who has any chance of getting foreign trips is never go to a country without researching it in depth. For example, first time I went to do some undercover work in Cuba. I read all the Cuban poetry, saw great films like Memories of Unded Development and Gabriela and Fanti. So by the time I got there, I was immersed. The Wambam, thank you, Mambam thing, of flying in, talking to the taxi driver on the way to the airport and then flying out, having been magisterial. Apart from the fact that it makes you write terribly idiotic things. But also you don't get that