It’s Thursday, and that means it’s time for the Public Eye Chat. This week’s subject is Rome-based CBS News Correspondent Allen Pizzey. You can read excerpts, and listen to the full interview, below. Brian Montopoli: You’ve got a lot of experience covering Africa, even before you came to CBS. Are Africa’s stories getting told in Western media? Allen Pizzey: No, I don’t think they are – I think we ignore Africa to a large extent. The only crisis that really gets any attention is the crisis in Darfur, and I don’t think we have enough people going there. It’s all basically a lot of second hand information. Somalia – you can’t cover Somalia. It’s simply too dangerous for somebody to go. But there are a lot of stories in Africa that ought to be covered. Zimbabwe is a catastrophe in the making, and no one’s paying a lot of attention, partly because Mugabe won’t let people in there. But also because people simply say, ‘well, you can’t go,’ so we don’t go, so we ignore it. And then there’s the whole West Africa Nigeria crisis. For example, the Niger delta supplies a fairly large percentage of […]