Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, at least there is some good news on the rights of photographers and videographers. See, this article: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/26/cops_have_to_pay_41k.html Frank Farmer Jackson, Miss. On Sep 2, 2005, at 12:33 AM, Scott McLoughlin wrote: > I wonder if the Toronto and NYT jounalists were shooting discrete MP's > and Noctilux (on topic - see) if they could have avoided police > violence. For > that matter, I wonder why with all the looting and gun violence going > on why > police would have wasted their time with lone journalists wielding > just a simple > camera of any stripe? > > Maybe FEMA should issue a warning to photo journalists and other press > personel to avoid dangerous, armed roaming police personel at all > costs. Sheesh, what a miserable country we live in - or so I'm > sometimes led to > think. My Ukrainian g'friend pretty much hates it here, and I defend > this > country to teeth. I'm gonna have a field day tomorrow when I see her. > Can't help it, I'm crying here. > > Scott > > Timothy Atherton wrote: > >> if anyone is thinking of photographing in N.O..... >> >>> From Donald Winslow at the NPPA: >> >> -----Original Message----- >> Subject: Photojournalists Covering Katrina Fall Victim To Growing >> Violence, Chaos >> Importance: High >> >> >> Full Story Online At: >> http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2005/09/hurricane2.html >> >> Photojournalists Covering Katrina Fall Victim To Growing Violence, >> Chaos >> AUSTIN, TX (September 1, 2005) ? As photojournalists continue to >> document >> the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?s violent assault on the Gulf >> Coast, >> today they also found themselves documenting new violence and death >> among >> the survivors, the refugees, and the looters and police and rescuers >> in New >> Orleans, while some photojournalists even fell victim to the violence >> themselves. >> >> Two veteran photojournalists - NPPA member Rick Wilking of Reuters and >> Getty's Mark Wilson - were robbed of cameras and computer equipment >> today >> while on assignment in a neighborhood in New Orleans, and a >> photojournalist >> and a reporter were confronted at gunpoint and slammed against a wall >> by >> police following a shoot-out between looters and cops that left at >> least one >> person dead. >> >> Another photojournalist - Lucas Oleniuk of the Toronto Star - was >> knocked to >> the ground by police, his gear taken from him initially, when he >> photographed them shooting at looters and then beating one. A New >> York Times >> photojournalist and Times-Picayune reporter Gordon Russell were >> slammed into >> a wall by police at gunpoint after they witnessed a shoot-out between >> cops >> and looters that left at least one person dead. >> >> In response to the growing violence and an increasing sense of >> despair among >> the stranded survivors, some television networks have hired armed >> private >> security firms to protect their journalists as they work to cover the >> story. >> >> Full Story Online At: >> http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2005/09/hurricane2.html >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >