Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Feb 25, 2004, at 11:01 AM, Marc James Small wrote: > > > At 08:10 PM 2/23/04 -0800, Ted Grant wrote: >> These embedded people were only let in on the basis if they were good >> boys >> and girls and didn't say anything that would make the military and >> certainly >> not the government look bad!!! And certainly not cause any >> embarrassing >> questions. > > Ted > > To be totally fair, the journalists in Viet-Nam routinely ignored > military > security: I remember one occasion on SIXTY MINUTES when Ed Bradley > squatted in front of a map and pointed out the route the unit he was > with > would take for the next week. Talk about an invitation for ambushes. > (And > the unit in question took around 75 killed and wounded over that time, > though I cannot say for CERTAIN that Bradley caused these losses -- > but I > damn well suspect that his gauche broadcast did so!) Marc, With all due respect, this is just a load of crap. Let's see, the film needed to get back to Saigon, then flown out to Hong Kong or Tokyo for processing. Then on to New York for editing and scripting, a process that normally takes several weeks, certainly it did during the period in question. Then the finished piece had to be slotted into a broadcast, probably not the very next one either. I'd guess six weeks minimum between when the film was shot and when it showed up on Sixty Minutes, and it was probably a lot longer than that. Rolfe - -- Rolfe Tessem Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. rolfe@ldp.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html