Excerpt: Through Their Eyes

througheyes.jpgStephen Hess has written a book about foreign correspondents in the United States called Through Their Eyes, and mb has posted an excerpt:

OLGA BAKOVA, RADIO SLOVENSKO, SLOVAKA (JULY 11, 2002)
Bakova: Generally in the morning, like 9 o’clock in the morning, which is 3:00 p.m. over there, [my editors] call me and ask me what is going on. And I wake up [before that], I go through my newspapers, usually Washington Post, Washington Times, New York Times, sometimes Internet. And my apartment and my office is the same, so it’s very easy. I try to go to the AP and all kinds of websites, other agencies, of course TV. And I tell [my editors] that this and this and this happened. And I have to ask them what do they want. What’s going on [here] doesn’t mean it is interesting in Europe. There are some cases, like the little girl from Utah [Elizabeth Smart] nobody cares about it in Slovakia. I don’t want to feed them with it.

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