Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear Colleagues, For those among us who are interested in photojournalism, picture editing, and media ethics, Daniel Okrent, Public Editor of the NYT, dedicates his Sunday Times space to readers' letters debating whether publishing newshots in color on the front page of dead children who were victims of the tsunami tragedy is the right thing to do. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/weekinreview/16bott.html?oref=login&hp If we consider the torture shots of prisoners in Iraq that many papers and TV shows exhibited, it seems that there is no professional policy of what is acceptable or decent content to go along with coffee in the morning. I suppose Weegee and Brady would have no qualms about hard reality, so US journalism is no newcomer to this type of news presentation. If you're behind the camera it's your job to lay it all out. It's up to the editors to decide which images to use, so the photographer is off the hook. He shoots the entrails of the times. I reckon it's up to the readers to determine their significance and either ignore or do something about what we see. Bob