Not as crazy as it sounds:
The cost of easy-to-maneuver drones equipped with quality video cameras is falling, and the technology is already more than capable. Really, the biggest impediment to news drones is probably federal regulation—the FAA won’t release its rules on UAVs until 2015, which means the current laws of the land stand; that it’s illegal to fly drones over 400 ft, and in most places where they could feasibly invade private property.
Rupert Murdoch’s always-nefarious News Corp found that out the hard way. Its Daily was, fittingly, one of the first media outlets to try to use drones, regulations be damned. Back in 2011, Forbes reported that the Daily twice flew drones into disaster zones on news-gathering missions, and probably violated federal regulations. It faces citations and fines—most news orgs are likely going to sit tight until 2015 in the wake of its example.
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