Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Having been in a few "political events with good, bad and ugly people >on all sides" it's best to say to the assignment.............. "Screw >it, it ain't worth the bull shit!" but if you're not there to take the picture, what happens to the people? the job of the media is to be an eye for the public. if the police can scare off photographers with threats of arrest, what happens then? year by year the media in this country is losing access, i suppose this is a logical continuation. they've been defanged. i saw a guy at that march wearing a shirt that said "the mainstream media is only as good as the corporation that owns it". which was reinforced when a girl about to be arrested took off her shirt and 30 photographers snapped a photo while one said "yeah, let's all take the photo that none of our papers will run."