Doom and Gloom Under the Mediterranean Sun

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Responding to a recent doom-and-gloom piece about Greece, Derek Fincham notes:

We should perhaps remember that other arts reporters for the New York Times have a habit of travelling to the Mediterranean and pointing out flaws in the cultural resource management of the Greeks and Italians. 

The expenses paid trip to the suntan oil and pizza zone for the journalist is probably too much a temptation for New Yorkers to hear much about the cultural resource management problems of Estonia, Iceland or the Faeroe Islands...