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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Who'd be a PJ in these troubled times?
From: Adam Bridge <abridge@mac.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:31:25 -0800

on 12/20/01 7:29 PM, kyle cassidy at kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu thoughtfully
wrote:

> a country based upon a free press should be concerned whenever the free
> press anywhere is challenged. shame on the u.s. media for not rattling the
> bars about this.

He wasn't a journalist - he was a PR flack - when he got paid by Greenpeace
he stopped becoming a journalist.

Journalists take a chance in doing what they do. There ARE lines. You'll
note that journalists who did "hidden camera" reports when they signed on as
employees ended up being sued - and the firms who sued won. That was the
price of the reportage.

If this guy were working for the New York Times he'd have been a journalist.
But he wasn't, he was an agent of Greenpeace. If they conspired, he
conspired by association.

Adam Bridge

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