Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Embedded Brit journalists will receive Iraq Campaign medal
From: Adam Bridge <abridge@mac.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:25:09 -0800

> 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
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