Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The general in charge was "shoot them in the back McCaffrey," and a subsequent NBC analyst /employee. The revulsion started long before it reached the breakfast table. The puking didn't stop there either, Ol' "Shoot them in the back" went on to fight our religious drug war in earnest as the Drug Tzar. I certainly feel well represented by such an example of West Point's finest. Slobodan Dimitrov - ---------- >From: "Christian Vik" <christian.vik@konge.net> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: SV: [Leica] DEADLINE IRAQ - Uncensored Stories of the War - CBC >Date: Tue, Nov 25, 2003, 3:53 PM > > > The scene you describe was shown on national television here in Norway not > very long after it occured. (The same day or the day after I think..?) > > Anyways... in Leica World 2/2002 there is a very strong picture by Ken > Jarecke at page 13 (upper right) from the last gulf war. The image shows the > terrible result of the allied bombing of a retreating Iraui army reffered to > by some allied pilots as a "turkey shot". To be more spesific it shows "an > Iraqui burnt to a cinder at the wheel of his vehicle". The article is about > the book "Underexposed - Pictures can lie, and liars use pictures" by Colin > Jacobsen. I haven't read the book but the article in Leica World fits this > discussion perfect I think. > > <quote from the article> > Asssociated Press refused to distribute the picture in the USA, maintaining: > "We cannot present pictures like that for people to look at over breakfast" > </quote from the article> > > Personally, I think such pictures ALWAYS should be shown to the public. > If they are horrible to watch then there is an even greater reason to show > them to the public. > > *IMHO* > > > > -- > Christian Vik > Website : http://intercept.konge.net > Portfolio : http://intercept.konge.net/portfolio/ > > > -----Opprinnelig melding----- > Fra: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]Pa vegne av Tim Atherton > Sendt: 25. november 2003 18:43 > Til: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Emne: RE: [Leica] DEADLINE IRAQ - Uncensored Stories of the War - CBC > > >> >> okay I live way south of the canadian border (unfortunately) and despite >> wishing canada will attack the US because of our weapons of mass >> destruction and >> take over northern california so we become part of canada, it >> hasn't happened >> yet, so, how do I get to see this program? >> >> >> Kim > > I'm pretty sure that someone like PBS/Frontline etc will pick it up in the > near future > > It really was a very compelling programme. It wasn't just talking heads and > reminiscences, but also footage of the various types of journalists doing > their work during the conflict - one of the most compelling sections was > John Simpson, a veteran 30 year correspondent from the BBC - travelling > independently with the Kurds, he was tagging along with a US Special > Forces/Kurdish convoy in N Iraq. The Special Forces call in a strike on a > target ahead of them and then gets accidentally bombed themselves by US > Forces instead. Simpson keeps reporting (at one point he brushes off a US > soldier who he thinks is trying to stop him, but is in fact offering first > aid). His assistant/translator has lost both his legs and been killed and > his cameraman keeps filming despite damage an injury to his left eye, which > is a mass of blood at this point - his whole head and face bloody (from the > camera's eye view you see the cameraman wiping his own blood from the front > of the lens). These were not people who where here to kowtow to someone > else's propaganda - they were going to tell the story that was in front of > them. > > tim > > tim > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html