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

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Subject: Re:[Leica] Faas, Horst, and Betrayal
From: Lucien_vD <Lucien_vD@compuserve.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 14:41:32 -0500

Marc wrote:

>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 wh=
at
>was going on that did the Western.  =


Marc,

Maybe it is my poor english, but I don't understand what you want to
explain.

Lucien
BELGIUM