Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last.
Foreign news is one of the most expensive kinds of news and, unlike in colonial days, one of the categories with the lowest levels of audience interest.
Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter emerged in the last half of the 19th century.
