Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/13

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Subject: [Leica] Fakes
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (wildlightphoto@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Aug 13 12:07:40 2008

Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:

>A lot of this stuff is known and big messy stories made out of it because
>the media are always looking for sensationalism and not the plain old
>fashion excitement of the sport!
>
>Part of this is media money driven only because the world has become one big
>back yard of communications and making money!  Yep they've all got the
>right.

I'd be a lot more comfortable with the fakery if I could acknowledge the 
fact that the olympics has become primarily another means to sell us Stuff 
That We Don't Need (STWDN) and that the athletes are merely pawns in the 
marketing game.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com



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