Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I wonder if the Toronto and NYT jounalists were shooting discrete MP's and Noctilux (on topic - see) if they could have avoided police violence. For that matter, I wonder why with all the looting and gun violence going on why police would have wasted their time with lone journalists wielding just a simple camera of any stripe? Maybe FEMA should issue a warning to photo journalists and other press personel to avoid dangerous, armed roaming police personel at all costs. Sheesh, what a miserable country we live in - or so I'm sometimes led to think. My Ukrainian g'friend pretty much hates it here, and I defend this country to teeth. I'm gonna have a field day tomorrow when I see her. Can't help it, I'm crying here. Scott Timothy Atherton wrote: >if anyone is thinking of photographing in N.O..... > >>From Donald Winslow at the NPPA: > >-----Original Message----- >Subject: Photojournalists Covering Katrina Fall Victim To Growing >Violence, Chaos >Importance: High > > >Full Story Online At: >http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2005/09/hurricane2.html > >Photojournalists Covering Katrina Fall Victim To Growing Violence, Chaos > >AUSTIN, TX (September 1, 2005) ? As photojournalists continue to document >the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?s violent assault on the Gulf Coast, >today they also found themselves documenting new violence and death among >the survivors, the refugees, and the looters and police and rescuers in New >Orleans, while some photojournalists even fell victim to the violence >themselves. > >Two veteran photojournalists - NPPA member Rick Wilking of Reuters and >Getty's Mark Wilson - were robbed of cameras and computer equipment today >while on assignment in a neighborhood in New Orleans, and a photojournalist >and a reporter were confronted at gunpoint and slammed against a wall by >police following a shoot-out between looters and cops that left at least one >person dead. > >Another photojournalist - Lucas Oleniuk of the Toronto Star - was knocked to >the ground by police, his gear taken from him initially, when he >photographed them shooting at looters and then beating one. A New York Times >photojournalist and Times-Picayune reporter Gordon Russell were slammed into >a wall by police at gunpoint after they witnessed a shoot-out between cops >and looters that left at least one person dead. > >In response to the growing violence and an increasing sense of despair among >the stranded survivors, some television networks have hired armed private >security firms to protect their journalists as they work to cover the story. > >Full Story Online At: >http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2005/09/hurricane2.html > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >