Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Photo journalists" is an approbation given by the trade to itself. There is no civil or criminal statute or principle of law which exempts self styled PJ's from the consequences of their actions. When two persons act in knowing concert, as to outsiders they are equally responsible, as principal and agent in civil law and as co- conspirators in criminal law, regardless what names they give themselves. - ---------- >From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] when is a pj not a pj? >Date: Fri, Dec 21, 2001, 7:17 PM > > This all seems pretty obvious to me, and has absolutely nothing to do > with the integrity, ethics, etc., of anyone: The independent freelance > should be treated as a journalist. The freelance hired by the > demonstrators should be treated as a demonstrator - he is, after all, > paid to be there specifically to advance the cause of the demonstrators > - which makes him one of them. > > George Lottermoser wrote: > >> BobKramer@COOPERCARRY.com (BOB KRAMER)12/21/0110:56 AM >> >> >>>No PJ. >>> >> >> I'd like to think that any serious, professional photographer who >> documents events with honesty and integrity, whether freelance, >> hired or staff would or could earn the moniker of photojournalist >> - journaling the visual reality. Shouldn't the product have more >> to do with the title than the entity writing the check? >> >> In the case in point which began this thread: >> If, hypothetically, another freelance "photojournalist" had >> caught wind of the demonstration and documented the event on his >> or her own dime, with the hope of later sales, or simply because >> they thought it important to journal, and was also arrested and >> charged - how speaks this illustrious jury? >> >> George >> >> >> -- >> 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