Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:06 PM 2/25/04 -0500, Rolfe Tessem wrote: >With all due respect, this is just a load of crap. > >Let's see, the film needed to get back to Saigon, then flown out to >Hong Kong or Tokyo for processing. > Actually, it is not, as you so gently term it, "a load of crap". It was one of the first occasions on which Network News used a live feed -- I suspect "live" being several hours old to allow for editing. But the moderator was asking questions and Bradlee was answering, so it was transmitted in real time. This was quite a stink at the time: there was a major article in the Washington Post magazine on this one Sunday, and I recall that the National Review also did an article on this. (I was in college at the time and, trust me, we argued this one out to its limits. Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html