Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>"B. D. Colen" wrote: >><snip> >> In terms of Di and Doddie - They didn't need to give a photo op - all they >> needed to do was have their driver obey the traffic laws and they'd be alive >> today and the world would have a few more crappy telephoto shots through car >> windows. Additionally - and apologies to any of Di's former subjects who may >> be offended - but I would suggest that Princess Di was an skilled >> manipulator and user of the media who was eventually killed and eaten by the >> beast she had endlessly fed.><snip> > >I've never heard it said better because I've never heard it said at all. >Thank you for expressing my deep feelings on this fascinating matter. >Fascinating because some VERY rational people were clobbering >photographers and still are because they thought they caused this >tragedy. I've heard of mass hysteria but not mass bad judgment in the >call of how this thing obviously went down and how it continues with >many bored names who are not at all concerned with the hard realities >of whose child or dog might be in the street when the play their real >life high speed hide and seek games. >Mark Rabiner > I suppose none of us will ever understand completely why they prefer to run away at neckbreaking speed from those paparrazis who were chasing them at equally neck breaking speeds. What I am more concerned about is that many innocent people could have been killed along the stretch of road that this whole event was taking place! The quest for "personal space and privacy" must never be an irresponsible one. Dan K.