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Carney, who majored in Russian and East European studies at Yale and speaks fluent Russian, worked as a summer intern at TIME in 1986. He spent part of the following year studying in Leningrad, where he got a close-up look at the first wave of Mikhail Gorbachev's attempts at reform. Starting in 1988 as TIME's Miami bureau chief, Carney covered Gorbachev's trip to Cuba and the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989. All the while he yearned to return to the Soviet Union. Events there seemed to be moving so fast, he recalls, "I used...
...last week's summit between George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev symbolized the end of the cold war, it may also have marked the end of a rather less historic phenomenon: the Great International Media Circus, with its Tibet-size press rooms wired for every conceivable form of human communication; "photo ops" in which a couple of dozen photographers viciously compete to see who can take the same picture the most times; legions of bored, humiliated reporters wandering aimlessly about with the glazed eyes of the living dead; and assorted bearers, runners and factotums, each armed with a walkie-talkie...
...have concluded that they can no longer afford saturation coverage of all presidential trips. (The overall cost of just the press centers in Moscow and Kiev was $250,000.) The Associated Press sent 11 staff members on the trip, a third less than the number that covered the Reagan-Gorbachev summit...
Since the coldest days of the cold war, summit coverage has been a growth industry. But it has ballooned to such mammoth proportions that it has crossed into the realm of self-parody. Only a relative handful of the 2,113 journalists accredited to cover the Bush-Gorbachev meetings managed to lay eyes on any of the leaders' key aides, much less Bush or Gorbachev. Some White House regulars were assigned to pools, but most journalists "covered" the events by sitting in the press room at Mezhdunarodnaya Hotel, a mile and a half from the Kremlin. There they read pool...
...absurdity of all this was highlighted Tuesday night when a White House aide announced that the pool assigned to cover Bush's visit to Gorbachev's suburban residence was not expected to provide any coverage. "You'll just go up there and hang out," the aide advised...