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Subject: [Leica] New topic - what makes "it" newsworthy?
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri Jan 11 17:01:08 2008
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On Jan 11, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Lottermoser George wrote:

> On Jan 11, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Steve Barbour wrote:
>
>> what makes this story news?
>
> First, I don't believe I ever claimed the portfolio under discussion  
> as "news."
> While I did attribute some newsworthiness to the subject of drug  
> cultivation, importation, use, addiction, etc.

possibly I  misunderstand the real meaning of a thread called "modern  
photoreportage ?"

what exactly does that mean ?

and if it doesn't mean current news reporting by photography, how  
could this thread have been better labelled... ?

> Yet, I'm attempting to depart from the specificity of Jessica's work  
> and ask you, Steve, "what do you consider newsworthy photographic  
> subjects?"


something/anything  that's actually  news...as in new...

>
> < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_values> offers one group of  
> criteria.
> Do you agree with these criteria?
>
>> and what makes these photos reporting?
>
>
> I don't really understand this question. The camera reports whatever  
> it's pointed at when the exposure is made.


technically sure George, but we are playing word games,  that surely  
doesn't make it either news or worth reporting...


Steve



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