Jon Snow: the ageless professional in Haiti

There's been so much brilliant on-the-spot reporting, in print and on TV, from Haiti, that it seems almost a unfair to single out particular achievement. Even so, raise a hand to salute Jon Snow from Channel 4 News : cool, authoritative anchoring combined with a zest to explore desolate, desperate places far off aid's beaten track. And one slightly lateral thought occurs. Snow will be 63 next birthday; he shows no sign at all of slowing down. But what of the politicians he spends so much time interviewing? Only two members of Gordon Brown's cabinet (Jack Straw by 13 months and Tessa Jowell by 11 days) are older than Snow, and he's comfortably senior to any of David Cameron's shadows. Time to take off your safari jacket and retire then, Jon? Not for a second – as Port-au-Prince has shown night after night.