Los Angeles is a foreign place

Interesting panel discussion last night, hosted by the LA Press Club, about foreign correspondents. It was hosted by my friend, Matt Welch (who has a fine blog). Much of the discussion was about how important "gets" are--if you want to sell something in America about a foreign country, you better be interviewing the leader of the country, or the leader of the resistance. Otherwise, your editor will say "who cares?"

Afterwards, we went out for drinks and I heard some great inside stories, some of which I don't think I'm allowed to repeat. By the way, are foreign correspondents still "hard-drinking"? Confirmed.