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Subject: [Leica] FW: Photojournalists Covering Katrina Fall Victim To Growing Violence, Chaos
From: summicron at bellsouth.net (Frank F. Farmer)
Date: Mon Sep 5 13:22:00 2005
References: <NIEELBCOAJKOKJFIGDGJIEPLDOAA.tim@KairosPhoto.com> <4317E431.8080600@adrenaline.com>

Well, at least there is some good news on the rights of photographers 
and videographers.  See, this article:

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/26/cops_have_to_pay_41k.html

Frank Farmer
Jackson, Miss.

On Sep 2, 2005, at 12:33 AM, Scott McLoughlin wrote:

> I wonder if the Toronto and NYT jounalists were shooting  discrete MP's
> and Noctilux (on topic - see) if they could have avoided police 
> violence. For
> that matter, I wonder why with all the looting and gun violence going 
> on why
> police would have wasted their time with lone journalists wielding 
> just a simple
> camera of any stripe?
>
> Maybe FEMA should issue a warning to photo journalists and other press
> personel to avoid dangerous, armed roaming police personel at all 
> costs. Sheesh, what a miserable country we live in - or so I'm 
> sometimes led to
> think.  My Ukrainian g'friend pretty much hates it here, and I defend 
> this
> country to teeth.  I'm gonna have a field day tomorrow when I see her.
> Can't help it, I'm crying here.
>
> Scott
>
> Timothy Atherton wrote:
>
>> if anyone is thinking of photographing in N.O.....
>>
>>> From Donald Winslow at the NPPA:
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Subject: Photojournalists Covering Katrina Fall Victim To Growing
>> Violence, Chaos
>> Importance: High
>>
>>
>> Full Story Online At:
>> http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2005/09/hurricane2.html
>>
>> Photojournalists Covering Katrina Fall Victim To Growing Violence, 
>> Chaos
>> AUSTIN, TX (September 1, 2005) ? As photojournalists continue to 
>> document
>> the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?s violent assault on the Gulf 
>> Coast,
>> today they also found themselves documenting new violence and death 
>> among
>> the survivors, the refugees, and the looters and police and rescuers 
>> in New
>> Orleans, while some photojournalists even fell victim to the violence
>> themselves.
>>
>> Two veteran photojournalists - NPPA member Rick Wilking of Reuters and
>> Getty's Mark Wilson - were robbed of cameras and computer equipment 
>> today
>> while on assignment in a neighborhood in New Orleans, and a 
>> photojournalist
>> and a reporter were confronted at gunpoint and slammed against a wall 
>> by
>> police following a shoot-out between looters and cops that left at 
>> least one
>> person dead.
>>
>> Another photojournalist - Lucas Oleniuk of the Toronto Star - was 
>> knocked to
>> the ground by police, his gear taken from him initially, when he
>> photographed them shooting at looters and then beating one. A New 
>> York Times
>> photojournalist and Times-Picayune reporter Gordon Russell were 
>> slammed into
>> a wall by police at gunpoint after they witnessed a shoot-out between 
>> cops
>> and looters that left at least one person dead.
>>
>> In response to the growing violence and an increasing sense of 
>> despair among
>> the stranded survivors, some television networks have hired armed 
>> private
>> security firms to protect their journalists as they work to cover the 
>> story.
>>
>> Full Story Online At:
>> http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2005/09/hurricane2.html
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from tim at KairosPhoto.com (Timothy Atherton) ([Leica] FW: Photojournalists Covering Katrina Fall Victim To Growing Violence, Chaos)
Message from scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin) ([Leica] FW: Photojournalists Covering Katrina Fall Victim To Growing Violence, Chaos)