Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/06

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Subject: [Leica] Photoshopping for Truth? (and a sneaky real estate FS Friday)
From: photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Philip Forrest)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 21:47:53 -0400
References: <AANLkTinyXGZnZ3W7K-jnNWI4VmphrXoaV67K6h8d-n1_@mail.gmail.com> <C8594DEC.342FA%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com> <AANLkTin2FvZWTo53QdskyQnvLb2JHu7ItJU3UQ6znEZG@mail.gmail.com>

Yup. That came from the US Coast Guard which is now an agency of
Department of Homeland Security. So they can call you whatever they
want, a threat to national security even, if you're a reporter trying
to get into a spill area. It's awful.
Phil Forrest


On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 21:38:36 -0400
Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> You might want to read some of the latest government ordered
> censorship of photojournalists trying to cover the BP oil spill.  It
> is chilling.
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Chris Crawford
> <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com
> > wrote:
> 
> > This has nothing to do with press freedom or Stalin or Hitler. Those
> > dictators ORDERED an unfree press to delete people from photos.
> > There is no such control over the press in the USA or the UK and if
> > a publication alters
> > a photo, its because THEY chose to, not because the government
> > ordered it.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Chris Crawford
> >



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