I think Syria is often covered by phone. You have to talk to activists. You have to try to, you know, read the tea leaves. You have to talk to government officials. And it is remote-control reporting in some ways. And that’s - you know, I think that’s deeply frustrating, especially coming out of experiences in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere, where it was very much, you know, on-the-ground reporting.
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Anthony Shadid, NYT foreign correspondent who died of an asthma attack inside Syria yesterday, talks to NPR Fresh Air’s Terry Gross this past December about reporting from Syria, getting captured in Libya and the future of the Middle East. What an amazing man and an incredible journalist.
[NPR]
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