Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric, I stand to be corrected - Stil it is not the same as being banned by the US - it was banned by an editor at the Associated Press! - but I agree with you it should not have been banned - it should have been up to each news paper to publish it ! I could have handelled it with my cornflakes, i konw someone who would have had a bad dream after seeing it - I think the photographer also meant to say something about the horror of war by that picture so that would be ok then. Eric Welch wrote: > No, what happened one mid-level Associated Press photo editor decided > to decide for all those photo editors. It's true most would not have > thought the photo passed the corn flake test (do people want to see it > while eating their corn flakes in the morning?) but they each should > have been given the chance to show it. And by the time it did hit > distribution, it was a bit old. > > It was a tough image, but I would have run it. I did run a body photo > once in my career as a newspaper photo editor. It was a man who killed > a police officer and shot three other people before being shot in the > head himself (By an amazing shot from 75 yards with a 9-mm handgun by > a very lucky police officer - the perp. had a hunting rifle!). > > We ran the photo small on the front page so that most detail was > obscured by distance and the dark (police officers shining their > flashlights on him) and then much larger inside in black and white. > The front page had a warning about looking inside the paper. A few > days later we asked our readers if we made the right decision (the > executive editor left the decision up to me in the end) and we got > over 225 emails and only one was in the negative. I even got a very > nice email from a Sheriff in Montana telling me I did the right thing. > > But most of the time, bodies are off limits. > > On Dec 14, 2003, at 3:16 PM, RUBEN BLĘDEL wrote: > >> The very picture from the first Iraq war with a burnt Iraq soldier >> dead trying to get out of the amoured truck was shown in an early 90 >> issue of American Photo and i recall it very well - shocking image ! >> It was not banned but the newspapers did not want to print it because >> of its very strong impact - > > Eric > Carlsbad, CA > > A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by > little statesmen, philosophers, and divines. - Ralph Waldo Emerson > > -- > 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