Re: RE: [Leica] Who'd be a PJ in these troubled times?

["Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>]

PS - this mode of work for an independent PJ is tres common in Europe

Tim A


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From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@ccapr.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 1:48 PM
Subject: RE: RE: [Leica] Who'd be a PJ in these troubled times?


> Before we all sign up to join the Free Morgan demonstrations, I would
> point out one thing, which I would suggest puts a somewhat different
> light on this:
> 
> Morgan was NOT taking those photos as a PJ - he was taking those photos
> as a paid publicist for Greenpeace.
> 
> Morgan was NOT on site as a journalist. He was on site as a contract
> employee of Greenpeace, hired by them to take photos of their action. He
> was, in other words, hired by them to promote the allegedly - and I
> stress allegedly - action they were staging. He was, therefore, very
> much a part of that action.
> 
> This one, folks, may have more to do with a freelance photographer's
> failing to think before he took a job, than it does with suppression of
> freedom of the press.
> 
> B. D.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Walter S
> Delesandri
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 3:08 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Cc: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: RE: [Leica] Who'd be a PJ in these troubled times?
> 
> 
> Jeezus!!!
> While I have no use in general for liberal-eco-wacko causes, including 
> Greenpeace, this is reprehensible treatment for a journalist.  We >>DO<<
> have 
> bigger worries to address in our country (and the world?)...maybe this
> will 
> die out on it's own, or be thrown out of court.  We hope.
> Walt
> (who likes to take pretty pictures of "uplifting", non-political subject
> 
> material, and who is a registered republican in my county) (just trying
> to 
> keep the FBI away from my door!)
> 
> 
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:41:28 -0800 rp johnson 
> <rpjohnson2@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > http://www.epuk.org/news/2001/12/18morgan.html
> > 
> > --
> > David Morton
> > dmorton@journalist.co.uk
> > 
> > ********************************************
> > Any relation?
> > 
> > RP Johnson
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