Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Users digest V8 #47
From: Summicron1@aol.com
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 11:35:39 EDT

In a message dated 4/25/99 7:03:32 AM, you wrote:

>    I am not sure that being nominated for a pulitzer, is really a test
>of one's photographic ability.  A few months a go we had a tragedy after
>a basketball game a young man was murdered outside of the arena at the
>Palestra (Univ. of Penn).  A guy who had an auto everything camera with
>built-in flash was walking down the street,  he got the shot.  He has
>been nominated for the Pulizer.  I met this young man and his attitude
>is "If I aint gonna get no money what is the big deal."  I have a lot of
>friends that have paid their dues, and worked there butts off and have
>never even been considered.
>
>John n3bvh
...couldn't agree more. The Pulitzer, like all journalism prizes, is mostly 
about being in the right place at the right time or, as we say in the 
business, "covering the correct presidential motorcade." If they gave awards 
for hard work that contributes to the daily appearance of the paper our 
librarian would have had a pulitzer years ago.

Charles Trentelman
staff reporter/columnist
standard-examiner
Ogden, Utah