Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I can not begin to tell you how many times my wife heard the same thing from me. I worked for quite a few dailies and do not even read the damn papers anymore. If I still get curious enough to want information about a subject I go to the Library or Barnes and Nobles. Even then I look the other way when passing the Da Vinci Code nonsense. :-P Walt Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > For years I would come home, after covering an event, sit and watch > TV with my wife. I would constantly say that's not what happened. In > lot of that footage you could see the back of my head, stooping to > get out of the way of the TV crews. I would say that in more than > half the occasions by what the talking head were saying and what > actually was taking place didn't coincide. > But then I was covering issues of concern for so called progressive > media outlets. Of which, by the way, only one progressive outlet ever > won a pulritzer prize in the life of that award. Something of a > matter of pride with that crowd. > However, the Annenberg School of Communication seems to be gobbling > up, or co-opting, any progessive journalist of note for its > university programs. > > Slobodan Dimitrov > Studio G-8, > Angels Gate Cultural Center > http://sdimitrovphoto.com > > > > > > On Aug 7, 2006, at 9:19 AM, Walt Johnson wrote: > >> Never were truer words typed. You are obviously a man with real- >> world experience in these matters. :-) >> >> Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: >> >>> The issue of altered photos pales in contrast to post-production, >>> i.e. after the image is taken, editorializing and inaccurate >>> captions. This goes back to the Civil War, and the Spanish >>> American War (Hearst newspapers). >>> It makes this current bout of scruppels laughable. >>> >>> Slobodan Dimitrov >>> Studio G-8, >>> Angels Gate Cultural Center >>> http://sdimitrovphoto.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Aug 7, 2006, at 7:48 AM, Gregory Rubenstein wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Reuters has canned a photographer in Beirut for altering a photo, >>>> according to an article at the following link from MSNBC. >>>> >>>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13165165/ >>>> >>>> This includes the photo, altered and unaltered, as well as >>>> Reuter's story. >>>> >>>> Greg Rubenstein >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >