Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/12

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Subject: [Leica] Fakes
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue Aug 12 20:04:35 2008
References: <380-22008821223223028@M2W007.mail2web.com> <C53300AA773740BC9E87986463D73B2C@dadquad> <EC51C912-263D-41E6-9AD0-31B690BD0859@cox.net> <200808130031.AUO84182@rg4.comporium.net>

Tina,
I agree with you on all this. Whether it is an Opening Ceremony or Iraq, the
point is the same.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote:

>
>  On Aug 12, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>>
>>  I'm surprised to read that people feel so strongly about this. The
>>> opening
>>> ceremony is simply entertainment or theatre, like a super Hollywood
>>> blockbuster movie. Seems like they put on a pretty spectacular show
>>> to me.
>>> Now Michael Phelps you could consider to be a REAL annoyance ;-) ;-)
>>>
>>
> You don't see anything wrong with telling a young girl that she is not
> pretty enough to sing in public?  That her voice will be used but another
> prettier girl will be photographed?  Or using computer fireworks because 
> the
> sky is too full of pollution to see real ones?  Or filling the stands with
> paid "fans" in order to save face?  What in the world is the world coming 
> to
> when we can't believe anything we see or read?  It's all lies.  Where do 
> you
> draw the line between entertainment and news?  The television and 
> newspapers
> seem to have a real problem with drawing that line.
>
> Tina
>
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (wildlightphoto@earthlink.net) ([Leica] Fakes)
Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] Fakes)
Message from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] Fakes)
Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Fakes)