When I was in the US, I despaired at the pieces that El Pais' correspondents published. Not only I could usually pick out which agency wire they were mistranslating, but when they wrote something to put stories in context they usually got the context worng (or, rather, they didn't recognize the kool-aid and just passed it on). I wondered why they bothered. Considering that newspapers now syndicate their content internationally, you don't even need to have a permanent correspondent on the off chance that they'll get an interview with someone. Sigh...

On the other hand, Democracy Now had had the daughter of an El Pais writer as an intern, and they used her as a Spain-based correspondent when they needed it. That was neat.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper