“All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus. Now they don’t. They call us to explain to them what’s happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.”
— Ben Rhodes as transcribed by David Samuels, The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru
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