Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:44 AM 9/4/97 -0700, you wrote: >oneself that it is not for him/her. No, the readers are not to blame. >Editors feed on the weaknesses of people and seek out these weaknesses in >the same way as a drug dealer. There are so many of us who have these No, help me stop! I can't stop buying tabloids! Argh!!!! That's just plain silly if you ask me. Editors don't have some evil agenda to subvert humanity, they're just greedy and know that there is no underestimating the taste of the public. Second of all, the photographers might be guilty of gross misconduct after the fact, but they did not kill Diana. That being said, I still don't like what they do, and would not do it. My choice, and theirs. And where was all the holy wrath against the evil doers when a million people were slaughtered in Rwanda? >poison and fine the magazines heavily for clear intrusions on privacy. If This is censorship and no matter how you slice it it hurts the very public that cries out for it. In the U.S. there are laws already on the books that protect privacy. To promote more laws based on this one incident is totally uncalled for. - --------------------- Eric Welch Grants Pass, OR Logic: The art of being wrong with confidence...