CNN on Israeli attack on Gaza

I am trying not to watch US TV news to maintain a semblance of sanity during this difficult period. I catch a minute or two and then I quickly switch because the aggravation is instantaneous. Only when I drive, I get a portion of those US TV news shows on satellite radio although I now connect my slingbox (mobile) to the the car audio system and thus can listen to (or watch if I want) Arabic news channels. But I heard a segment from CNN. First, Christiana Amanpour is very annoying and she is considered a serious foreign correspondent for reasons unbeknownst to me. She is shallow and speaks with an air of confidnece, but is--like Thomas Friedman--capable of simplifiying the simpliefied becuase she--like Thomas Friedman--can't handle complex ideas or concepts. And then Ben Wedeman did a report and it was rather good: the terminology was unusually detached and he maintained a professional distance that you don't see on TV. But at the every end: he was speaking on the Isralie terrorist ban on news media in Gaza: he did not explain that the ban is because the Israeli terrorist did not want the foreign reporters to watch and cover the Israeli butchery. And then Wedeman added that there are Palestinain stringers in Gaza for CNN but that it was not "like you and me being there, Anderson" or words to that effect. What does that mean? And why are the stringers deficient? Look at Taghreed: here is a Palestinian reporters covering the story just as Martin Peretz would cover it. Also, a tomato can cover the conflict better than Anderson Cooper.