[Leica] I really disagree with this policy

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

Neil,
First, we are not talking about the Superdome.  We are talking about
the people in the current shelters.  The problem with government is
that they can not select one or two people, at best they would have to
do a pool thing where one or two photographers represented everybody
and I don't think the press is too eager to select a photographer to
go gently into the Dome.  The FEMA people and everybody else in a
position of authority is too busy taking care of hundreds of thousands
of people to stop and do a lottery so a few photographers can get the
story.

Besides, the real story is out in New Orleans itself, in and around
Biloxi, Gulfport, and all the little communities on the coast.  Access
there to accredited media is not bad and the real story is the people
that are going in saving, restoring, choosing what stays and what
goes.  We don't really need to see ten thousand cots lined up with sad
looking people sitting on them.  We do need to see people getting on
with their lives and coping with their loss.

Photographs are being taken, by the Army records division.

Now, back to the SuperDome.  I don't believe in that chaos that
anybody kept anybody from going inside during the first 48 hours.  So,
where was the press when the people needed help the most?

On 9/8/05, Neil Schneider <neilsimages@pipeline.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sep 8, 2005, at 1:37 AM, Ted Grant wrote:
> 
> > feli said:
> >>> And you're right,
> > there is a general hostility to
> > photographers, like we are all a bunch of mouth breathers looking to
> > exploit a situation. And this
> > hostility exists because the reputation of photographers has been
> > dragged through the mud, by a
> > minority of people who act like a bunch of animals.<<<<
> >
> > Hi feli,
> > Ok lets pretend we're witnesses for a moment, not photographer's
> > inside the NO stadium.
> >
>