Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One of the questions that hasn't come up, concerns on how he was assigned. Often times an agency with a stable of photographers will get calls for assignments. Many of these individuals will work for publications as a contributor and take on_extra work_through an agency. It's done all the time. However, there is no point in quibbling about journalistic integrity or purity at this late stage of the game. Initially the freedoms accorded to the press did not apply to advertisers, which is essentially the whole of our current press. It was, and rightfully so in my opinion, thought that objectivity would be compromised by the revenue source's demands on the editorial content. All that has changed long ago, under conditions that aren't too dissimilar to ours today. But, even a casual dip into the subject far exceeds the scope of this forum and I'll stop right here. If I drop an article here and there, it's not from won't of a decent edit. English being my third language, I will often miss the all too important article, no matter how often I reread it. My apologies to the nativists and doctrinaire. Slobodan Dimitrov Adam Bridge wrote: > > 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 > > -- > 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