Re: [Leica] Inspired but arrested

["Keith R. Wessel" <keith@wbalaw.com>]

> Let's say the mall in in a posh outer suburb but that there are
> communication lines with the inner-city scum so that they turn up at the
> mall and bother these beautiful people out in the burbs. So the owners of
> the private property start barring certain elements from their malls. They
> hurt the neighborhood, so to say.
>
> Now this would be news. Would the journalist have to go to the PR people
> of the mall and ask their permission to do an article on racial
> discrimination at the mall?

Excellent point.  It begs the question as to whether we as a society seek to
exclude the undesirables.  I think that has been done with some success in
India.  We once had a "Great Society" movement in this country to provide
opportunity for the less privileged.

I am somewhat troubled by the distinction between journalist and
documentarian.  Do the wonderful photographs posted today by John Beeching
not provide an historical slice of life which deserves respect equal to that
of the breaking news journalist?

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