RE: [Leica] Street photography

["Bob Walkden" <bobwalkden@hotmail.com>]

Hi,

>misrepresenting themselves. And I don't know, by the way, that I would
>classify traveling with a tourist visa in that category. Traveling with a
>tourist visa is simply failing to wear a signboard reading journalist.

If they're travelling on a tourist visa they're doing it for a good reason, 
and generally that's so that the authorities don't know they've entered the 
country as journalists.

When a journalist enters a country on business using a tourist visa he is 
saying to the (usually self-appointed) authorities "I am a tourist". How is 
this different to me saying to the (usually self-appointed) authorities at a 
demo "I am a journalist"?

>tell you from personal experience at The Washington Post and Newsday that
>all journalists, investigative or otherwise, were always told never to
>misrepresent themselves. They were not told, however, that they had to
>advertise themselves. :-)

Frankly I'd be amazed if anybody took that seriously. I'd bet that even the 
people doing the telling always have their fingers crossed. When a camera 
crew travels incognito into a place like Afghanistan to film secretly 
they're not doing it without the knowledge and backing of their editors.

Cheers,

Bob

>From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
>
>Bob - I'm not saying that there aren't examples of journalists
>misrepresenting themselves. And I don't know, by the way, that I would
>classify traveling with a tourist visa in that category. Traveling with a
>tourist visa is simply failing to wear a signboard reading journalist. The
>question arises when one is asked, "are you a journalist?" If, at that
>point, you say, "no, I'm a Leica collector on vacation," I and many
>journalists would have a real problem with the misrepresentation. And I can
>tell you from personal experience at The Washington Post and Newsday that
>all journalists, investigative or otherwise, were always told never to
>misrepresent themselves. They were not told, however, that they had to
>advertise themselves. :-)
>
>B. D.

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