Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: What I did today -- GET A LIFE
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 15:41:55 -0500

At 08:14 PM 9/20/99 +0000, Joel Ohle wrote:
>You use the term papparazzi as if it were a perjorative term. Do you have 
>a problem with aggressive entrepeneural photojournalist earning a 
>living??? I always like discussions of privacy and ethics from a culture 
>where the highlight include web-cams in the mall and God only knows where else.

It IS a pejorative term. We photojournalists take great offense at that label.

And because some people abuse others privacy, you believe your culture 
superior? The UK is free of security cameras and abuse by sick individuals 
of people's privacy? Wow, let me move there!

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO

http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

Suicidal twin kills sister by mistake!