Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/22

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Subject: Re: A room for everybody
From: "Glenn Wm. Thrall" <gthrall@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 22:16:57 -0800

Ben Holmes wrote:
> 
> >At 5:28 PM 11/22/96, Oddmund Garvik wrote:
> >>One of my colleagues went to the USA some weeks ago to cover the
> >>presidential election. At an election meeting Bill Clinton's press
> >>officer said to the photographers: "Gentlemen, you shoot at 1/125,
> >>aperture 5.6, focal length 85mm..." If you picked up a 28mm to make a
> >>different photo, you were excluded. Simply like that.
> 
> That's a fabrication. The Nat'l press sits way back, maybe 100-200 foot
> throw and uses whatever the hell they want. I photgraphed both Dole and
> Clinton this time around in Denver and had the complete opposite experience.
> You are left to your own devices. Secret service clears your stuff, you set
> up and shoot til' you run out of film. Then they feed you.
> 
> ben

I concur with Ben. Each and every time I have been at a site where the 
President or nominee has been, the concern has been for security. In the normal 
chaos of any political event, the press is free to take photos of anything.

Does anyone really think President Clinton or his staff want photos of the 
President's gut? Did Senator Dole want to be "star for a day" when he took a 
dive off of the speaker's stand? 



Glenn


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Glenn Thrall
gthrall@ix.netcom.com
THRALL TECHNICAL WRITING
Southern California

"Here Phaethon lies: in Phoebus' car he fared,
And though he greatly failed, more greatly dared."
Ovid
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