Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"No one in this world, so far as I know ... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people." - H.L.Mencken 1926 This problem has been around for a long time! Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:06 AM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>wrote: > When I referred to adjunct "corporate work" > I intended to mean commercial work which pays far more > than corporate media pays for editorial work. > > So if we're doing annual report work for Enron for $35,000 > will we also do an expos? on Enron for $3,000? > (pardon the hypothetical - yet, that's the paradox) > > As far as "they" I assume you mean the mass market. > > It would seem that we must seek and develop the smaller markets > which do have an interest in deep news and stories. > > Just yesterday - I had this OMG reaction to Huffington Post's current > headlines - the majority of which look like tabloid bull s**t. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > On Aug 10, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Phil Swango wrote: > > Point taken, but all those Life Magazine photogs we so admire worked for >> Time, Inc. Even Walker Evans worked for Fortune. Newspaper photogs work >> for corporations too. >> >> As for as what the readership wants, they want celebrity news and photos. >> They would *way* rather see a blurry phonecam snap of Britney's (bleep) >> or >> Michael Jackson's surgically manufactured grimace than any Salgado essay >> about ecological damage in the Amazon. Newspapering's a tough business >> these days. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >