Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:32 PM 12/6/97 -0500, you 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. Others have responded better, kinder than I almost did to Marc's uniformed rewriting of history. It is a slander against Robert Capa, Dickie Chappel and the rest of the journalists who died over there with the GRUNTS - those whose lives and bodies were on the line for the "non combatants" who put them there - who opposed the war way before the government came to its senses. The press were welcomed over there by the grunts. THEY convinced the press the war was unwinnable. David Halberstam, that bastion of liberal journalism (hey, Liberals weren't what they used to be) was gung-ho for the war until the grunts in '63 or '64 convinced him the war was unwinnable. The brass lied to the President and Congress. (See Gen. Westmorland's suit against 60 Minute's accusation that he lied about body counts - 60 Minutes won). That's all I'll say. I'm so mad I could spit. ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance. Lewis Hine 1904