hotel journalism

hotel journalism
 n.— «“Hotel journalism” is the only phrase for it. More and more Western reporters in Baghdad are reporting from their hotels rather than the streets of Iraq’s towns and cities.» —“Hotel Journalism Gives American Troops A Free Hand As The Press Shelters Indoors” by Robert Fisk Independent (U.K.) Jan. 17, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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