Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not to get OT but many of these images and others like them have been in non-US papers and magazines. We're censored by the government and media outlets who saw what showing dead bodies during WWII,Korea and Vietnam was the wrong type of propaganda. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lottermoser George" Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:Reuters : Bearing Witness > Great link - great images, narration and use of current multimedia > possibilities. > > Serious questions: > Who's doing the censoring? > Does a "market" exist for this type of photo journalism? > Who would buy the magazine, newspaper, etc. which was filled with this > work? > > Fond regards, > George > george@imagist.com > www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > Picture A Week - www.imagist.com/paw_07 > > > > On Mar 19, 2008, at 8:58 PM, Christopher Williams wrote: > >> I think that if stories and photos like that were published in US papers >> we'd have a different approach to this war. Of course >> we'd then be labeled anti-patriotic but oh well. Way too much censorship >> over here. >> >> Thanks for posting the link. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information