Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/16

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Photojournalistic integrity and masking
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:14:46 -0400

At 06:32 PM 9/16/1999 -0500, Harrison McClary wrote:
>
>If covering a political rally and one of the Presidents girlfriends shows 
>up and makes a scene screaming and shouting, but the rest of the event is 
>normal double talk then the story is the girl friend screaming....the key 
>here is the second word "journalist" in the word photo journalist.  

Isn't this precisely what Nell Britt did to Warren Gamiliel Harding?  The
press did not cover the story, but the incident became an instant, and
quite large, scandal throughout the world -- folks talked!

Marc

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