American said last week that by offering early boarding to passengers who are travelinglight, with only a carry-on bag that fits under the seat in from of them, it can chop two minutes off the time it takes to board a narrowbody aircraft.
Hersh is no doubt travelinglight compared to the war correspondents of the past, but putting him and a photographer on the ground in Egypt, and producing and disseminating their work in a polished fashion, still costs real money, the kind a corporate parent like News Corp. brings to the table.