I have to say I entirely agree with this post from Tim at Bringing up Charlie. WTF do all the broadcasters have to send extra reports out to “disaster zones”? They’ve done it with Japan; I dread to count how many extra reporters BBC TV alone has sent out to Japan to use their precious fuel and get in the way. They did it a couple of weeks earlier with Libya. And a couple of weeks before that with Egypt, where at one point I counted at least 8 extra reporters. If you don’t trust the staff you already have there to cover whatever happens, why are they there in the first place? Come on guys, wake up! This is totally unnecessary consumerism.
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In cases of disaster, it is sad but true that better known faces bring in donations – that's why all the celebs climb mountains for Comic Relief and so forth.And, to be fair, being e.g. the Japan correspondent doesn't mean you can cover a disaster of such magnitude all on your own.