Also, western news corporations want their own angle, the BBC dont want the same angle on their dispatches as AlJaz, similarly with CNN and elsewhere. Thus local coverage, even without voice-overs, is fairly worthless.

All this was proven by the massive questions that were asked of western media during the recent conflict in Gaza. When all the content was sourced from locals inside Gaza the viewer stopped trusting what they were seeing, hence the debate surrounding impartiality of CNN and BBC’s coverage. The Israeli’s knew that would happen and took advantage of this, banning international journalists.

The idea does sound nice on paper however, but it doesn’t stand up – in my opinion.