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In that case, wouldn't it be better to send her to the Washington bureau? The LA correspondent tends to get deployed on the fluffy entertainment stuff... I can't say I've often seen David Willis or Sophie Long tackling any complex political stories...

It might be better, but I suspect that Ireland correspondent is part of the World Affairs rotation circuit - whose subject matter varies substantially depending on where you're posted. It's an odd system and they do seem rotate less frequently now, but it'd surely be better to have reporters stay in one area - you don't really have business, science, etc. correspondents moving to another subject overnight.