Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/14

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Subject: [Leica] Journalists and stuff
From: Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:09:15 +0100 (MET)

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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:35:11 +0100 (MET)
From: Daniel Ridings <danielr@ulrik.uio.no>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Freedom of the press? WAS (something else)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=4&u=/ap/20031112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_media_troubles_1

According to the AP you can blame the military for some things. It doesn't
look like the US is likely to regain a higher ranking for 2003.

Daniel


On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Kit McChesney wrote:

> Don't blame the military for the folly of the politicians. They only carry
> out the half-baked ideas of the powers-that-be.
>
> K.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Eric Welch
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 9:21 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Freedom of the press? WAS (something else)
>
> True, and the press is more than willing to accept that fact. They get
> killed on a regular basis have have for years. But the U.S. military
> specifically targets them, and that is not only immoral and illegal,
> it's anti-American. But then too many in the military think the flag is
> more important than the people it represents.
>
> On Nov 12, 2003, at 7:15 AM, grduprey@rockwellcollins.com wrote:
>
> > If you are killed by getting in the way this is not
> > suppression of the press.
> Eric
> Carlsbad, CA
>
> "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.  The
> pessimist fears it is true."  -J. Robert Oppenheimer
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