Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]PS - this mode of work for an independent PJ is tres common in Europe Tim A - ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@ccapr.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 1:48 PM Subject: RE: RE: [Leica] Who'd be a PJ in these troubled times? > 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. > > > > -----Original Message----- > 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: > > > > > > http://www.epuk.org/news/2001/12/18morgan.html > > > > -- > > David Morton > > dmorton@journalist.co.uk > > > > ******************************************** > > Any relation? > > > > RP Johnson > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html