Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/16

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Leica war photos
From: Summicron1 at aol.com (Summicron1@aol.com)
Date: Tue Nov 16 07:46:05 2004

it's an ok picture, nothing major -- i think it says something about how 
poor 
the war coverage has been that this picture is getting such a rush -- 
photographers need to get out more with the troops. The Washington Post 
yesterday   
had story and photos by one of its shooters who spent time with a patrol in 
combat and they are vastly better than this but, for some reason, the major 
media 
seem to prefer shots of generals standing in front of podiums. 

Couldn't have anything to do with fear that showing real combat will turn 
support for the war, of course, so there must be some other reason. Maybe 
I'm 
just a bad judge of news value and shots of generals in front of podiums are 
really what matter.

go figure

c trentelman
In a message dated 11/16/04 6:38:56 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org writes:


> 
> 
> For those of us too young to live through WWII, Korean War, or even the
> Vietnam War, what do y''all think of this photo?
> 
> http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/11/15/marine.photo.ap/index.html
> 
> 


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