"D. Martin" wrote in message
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You sir, are particularly sinical. We, as a society, tout ourselves as
an advanced, and technology savvy people. I expect farmers to farm,
plumbers to plum, and reporters to report. I do my job, without excuse,
garnering no criticism. I admire responsibility. People are not
universally driven by a sense of duty, and we are the worse for that.

If disaster sites are remote, and local communications are compromised by
the disaster, there is no way to report until alternate transportation is
available. Some of the news organizations chartered helicopters and such,
and arrived as soon as it was physically possible. News organizations do not
customarily have bureaus on beaches.

I'll bet the sidebar story of how the news organizations got film and
reports so fast would amaze us all... and would be most worthy of praise,
not criticism by the ill-informed. As another poster said, you sound like a
proponent of instant gratification.