Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/06

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Subject: [Leica] Faas, Horst, and Betrayal
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 14:32:37 -0500

Well, I for one, feel a bit aggrieved at the job done by Western
photo-journalists in Viet-Nam.  The US, for God's sake, was putting men IN
HARM'S WAY and the photo-journalists, by undermining their efforts, stabbed
them rather dramatically in the back.  It wasn't journalism:  it was trash.

The same shots could have been made in either World War or in Korea, but,
thank heavens, weren't.

Clearly, the North Viet-Namese shooters did a finer job of describing what
was going on that did the Western.  

Marc




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