Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> To be totally fair, the journalists in Viet-Nam routinely ignored military > security: I remember one occasion on SIXTY MINUTES when Ed Bradley > squatted in front of a map and pointed out the route the unit he was with > would take for the next week. Talk about an invitation for ambushes. (And > the unit in question took around 75 killed and wounded over that time, > though I cannot say for CERTAIN that Bradley caused these losses -- but I > damn well suspect that his gauche broadcast did so!) But the time between shooting and the final program had to be greater than a week. The film had to be shot, processed, transported to NY, edited into the program, transmitted, and then THAT transmission sent back to Vietnam and to make it into the field. A week in 1970 doesn't seem sufficient. Adam - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html