Air
borne reporting
IANS reports that the state government is arranging helicopters for reporters to cover the coming polls in Jammu and Kashmir.
That way they will be able to have a full view of the election process, the government thinks. Some polling stations are at the elevation of 10,000 feet and beyond, others are very remote. Journalists, particularly foreign ones, are being treated as a replacement for the foreign observers that the government has declined to allow into the state. Two dozen foreign reporters are already here, and major international networks are making elaborate arrangements to cover the elections.