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Subject: [Leica] IMG: part 2 of 3 now available
From: richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man)
Date: Fri Dec 19 18:34:43 2008
References: <DABD2510-6E88-4E48-AAB4-33CA3909B149@mac.com> <7ac27f4f0812182018m12fa47afo920ebf075f062ff0@mail.gmail.com> <77F32D7D-EBA9-4D82-B1F9-5098923194B9@mac.com> <CF7465B2-3442-41D4-A93E-E1C42CFE0B91@charter.net>

That's a great assessment. Contrast these, which to me still are great
photos - to David's China photos for example. I think the Nachtway photo
satisfies your Kobayashi Maru critieria, but then he's old school...


On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Slobodan Dimitrov
<s.dimitrov@charter.net>wrote:

> It's pedestrian at best.
> That's the problem when content is reduced to composition only. It's
> definitely a teaching issue at the college level.
> Most of these kids are taught with the AP style sheet as their main text
> book. Doesn't leave much wiggle room for substantive personal development.
> Though if you sat in on one of those classes, they are constantly hammered
> about integrity in journalism. It's unfortunately being done in an
> decontextualized sort of manner.
> I've yet to see a Kobayashi Maru exercise on what to do in problematic
> situations. It's troublesome, because in many cases, they are being made to
> write deep captions, on site with computer/cellular downloads, within
> minutes of events. When ones considers how poorly educated they are, and in
> spite of a high technical proficiency, their lack of a foundational
> knowledge of the events around them will eventually create serious problems
> for researchers in this period.
> sd
>
>
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// richard m: richard @imagecraft.com
// b: http://richardfman.wordpress.com

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