tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post54268238010624755..comments2023-10-28T05:02:10.442-04:00Comments on Americans For Bosnia: "In Harm's Way" by Martin Bell [17]Kirk Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879908614214050994noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post-84780977982817413432009-12-20T04:21:03.589-05:002009-12-20T04:21:03.589-05:00Kirk, I think you mean Operation Flash rather than...Kirk, I think you mean Operation Flash rather than Storm.<br /><br />Bell's problems reporting what he was seeing wasn't necessarily due to the world having stopped listening, as far as the UK was concerned, anyway. This was the "Birt era" at the BBC. Under the regime's "totalitarian micro-management" BBC news coverage as I remember it was very much newsroom focused rather than location focused.<br /><br />Makers of news and documentary programmes had to outline their finished "product" in writing before going out with the camera. Kate Adie observed that this approach was inconsistent with the "obligation to report".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com