A reporter compromises

Richard Littlejohn (Daily Mail) and Charles Moore (Spectator) have been trying to take shots at Lindsey Hilsum (C4 News). She wore a headscarf while reporting from Iran.

Her reposte in the New Statesman is excellent:

Wearing a headscarf is a wonderful thing because it alerts the audience to the compromises a reporter has to make; it's a symbol of the constraints under which we operate and the complex reality in which we work. Unless we are columnists living in London or the Home Counties, in which case our world-view is not tempered by reality at all.

This isn't just knockabout, putting down Littlejohn & Moore. That would be fun, but poor sport for someone like Hilsum. It's an important piece on the realities of reporting in the modern world.

Les