Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch: >>>You really insult the guy who runs Leica to compare him to that traitor to my profession!<<< Eric, Whew, I'll say. That guy is every journalist's and editor's nightmare come to life. Reminds me of what happened at Dartmouth. When I was there, John Kemeny had just been named President. He was a mathematician, co-inventor of the computer language BASIC, and a former research assistant to Albert Einstein. There was a hue and cry that it was a disgrace to Dartmouth because he was a scientist and not a humanities scholar. So what did they do after Kemeny left? They named as President a _businessman_, the former CEO of Toro lawnmowers. Now _that's_ a travesty. Even Otis Chandler has objected to this guy Mark Willes. This is really a crucible juncture for American journalism. - --Mike