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CUTS HURT COVERAGE OF MUMBAI ATTACKS, SAYS TRADE MAGAZINE
Wednesday, December 3 2008
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The much criticized TV coverage of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last week manifested the effects of deep cuts in the broadcast and cable networks' foreign news operations, Broadcasting & Cable magazine said in a commentary on its website today (Wednesday). "The dearth of reliable information on U.S. television over the three-day conflict that broke during the Thanksgiving holiday was apparent," the trade publication asserted, pointing out that they provided little information about the precise number of targets, attackers, casualties and hostages, the result of little "boots-on-the-ground" reporting. CNN, it noted, was the only U.S. news operation, broadcast or cable, that provided any live coverage at all from Mumbai. On Thursday morning, at the height of the attacks, B&C observed the broadcast networks virtually ignored them, two of them providing in-depth coverage of the Macy's Christmas Day Parade in New York. Former CBS News producer Rome Hartman, now reigning over BBC World News America, remarked, "There was something slightly diffident about that being pretty much all you could find on American TV on Thursday morning."
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