Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And there are at least two problems with the response of the Times editors: that NY Times readers will recognize the difference. 1) it makes quite elitist assumptions about the paper's readers and 2) it omits to consider how people with a different ideological point of view from that attributed to Times readers will point to the misleading inferences as attempts to mislead deliberately Times readers into believing that these were real photographs of real torture. Seth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Bridge" <abridge@gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 2:17 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] NYT Public Editor on Press Photography > Thank you for bringing this essay to my attention. I'm glad someone is > grappling with these issues and unhappy that the New York Times > Magazine succumbed to the lure. > > Adam Bridge > > > On 7/2/05, Afterswift@aol.com <Afterswift@aol.com> wrote: >> Dear Colleagues, >> >> I know very few on this list will read this post because of the holiday >> weekend, but I think the following is on the nose article by the Public >> Editor of >> the NYT, Byron Calame. >> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/03/opinion/03publiceditor.html?hp=&pagewanted=p >> rint >> >> Best, >> bob rosen >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >