And we have a squad of 40 international correspondents around the world, from China to the Middle East, India to west Africa, together with the very best and latest news, features and commentary from our large reporting teams in the UK and the US.
He said his experience of conflicts and meeting war correspondents "leads me to suggest, controversially, that it is just a little bit possible that they are not all entirely saintly at every minute of the day.
Justin Welby said foreign correspondents and war reporters were a "God-given calling to inspire others to serve our common humanity" and helped challenge people's complacency that what happened elsewhere in the world "did not matter".
But one crucial lack is the presiding role of the old-style diplomatic correspondents, drawing red lines, explaining the choices we must make.
It is mostly, these EU days, provided by political correspondents based at Westminster, who rely on Downing Street for their daily bread.
Economics correspondents do the economics; political correspondents do the politics; Brussels correspondents do the EU end; old warriors such as Nigel Lawson say what they thought in the first place in the name of "due impartiality".
A crack team of old-school yellow journalists should be deployed to dig up everything knowable about the owners, editors and political correspondents of the newspapers, along with the Tory frontbench, to be kept for retaliation and/or pre-emption.
The result of the Peston adjudication was a unanimous outcry among education correspondents that the government had got it wrong.
Most of the reporters who travelled with Merkel to Jerusalem earlier in the week decided to skip London and leave the coverage to local correspondents.
But in the end the spin has an anaesthetising effect – at least on the heavyweight end of BBC correspondents and editors.
I was impressed - they looked like frozen smoke - but what did I know?One of the other arts correspondents told me that the artist charged £8,000 to come to your house, lay a new carpet in an empty room, and scratch you up some animals.
