It's lazy journalism in my book. A story on a plate, plenty of details to go at, nice country where they speak our language and will provide an expenses receipt which the accounts dept will only query if it is huge, sounds important, why do any real work just to have the story spiked by an editor with an eye to the ratings and zero integrity?

Yes we need to know whose arse our own native arseholes are going to lick, but until we get to choose arseholes it is largely academic.