Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/20

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Subject: RE: RE: [Leica] Who'd be a PJ in these troubled times?
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@ccapr.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:48:23 -0500

Before we all sign up to join the Free Morgan demonstrations, I would
point out one thing, which I would suggest puts a somewhat different
light on this:

Morgan was NOT taking those photos as a PJ - he was taking those photos
as a paid publicist for Greenpeace.

Morgan was NOT on site as a journalist. He was on site as a contract
employee of Greenpeace, hired by them to take photos of their action. He
was, in other words, hired by them to promote the allegedly - and I
stress allegedly - action they were staging. He was, therefore, very
much a part of that action.

This one, folks, may have more to do with a freelance photographer's
failing to think before he took a job, than it does with suppression of
freedom of the press.

B. D.



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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Walter S
Delesandri
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 3:08 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Cc: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: RE: [Leica] Who'd be a PJ in these troubled times?


Jeezus!!!
While I have no use in general for liberal-eco-wacko causes, including 
Greenpeace, this is reprehensible treatment for a journalist.  We >>DO<<
have 
bigger worries to address in our country (and the world?)...maybe this
will 
die out on it's own, or be thrown out of court.  We hope.
Walt
(who likes to take pretty pictures of "uplifting", non-political subject

material, and who is a registered republican in my county) (just trying
to 
keep the FBI away from my door!)


On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:41:28 -0800 rp johnson 
<rpjohnson2@mindspring.com> wrote:
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> http://www.epuk.org/news/2001/12/18morgan.html
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> David Morton
> dmorton@journalist.co.uk
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> Any relation?
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> RP Johnson
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