Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No, my masters degree in journalism from the leading, and oldest, school in the world isn't worth the paper it's printed on I suppose. Anyone can get a degree without really learning anything. But fifteen years in the trenches I have learned a few things. And one of them is that your statement is pure sophistry. Ethics are NOT for sale by definition. If they are for sale, they are not ethics. And the practitioner of their principles are not ethical. The ethics advocated by my school, by the NPPA and by thousands of photojournalists like myself have nothing to do with what's for sale. We will not work for publications that fake photos, and encourage photojournalists to act unethically. We will not hire those photographers who act unethically to selfishly advance their careers. And we sleep well at night knowing that we are not hypocrites as long as we know that no one is objective, but one must be as fair as humanly possible, honest as possible, and willing to miss the photo - and the accolades and awards that would come with it - if it take unethical action to get it. on 11/7/03 1:38 AM, Rob Appleby at rob@robertappleby.com wrote: > Professional ethics are for sale by definition. They are defined and > enforced by industrial interests. To think anything else is simply a matter > of... how much you have to learn. Associate not with evil men, lest you increase their number. - Frank Herbert - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html