[Leica] "acceptable or decent content "

[ccstirkjr at yahoo.com (Charles C. Stirk Jr)]

Bob thanks for posting this I am constantly dismayed with
the amount of self censorship that goes on in the media in
the states .

With the "acceptable or decent content "  litmus test way
to much can be swept under the rug .

 I understand that this is not the reason but definitely a
contributing factor to the general cluelessness of the
populous in the states  .



Chuck 

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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


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