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Re: [OM] House fire photos

Subject: Re: [OM] House fire photos
From: JOHN DUGGAN <john.duggan10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 22:43:41 +0000 (GMT)
Andrew, as I replied to Ken, ALL goverments have their dirty secrets and I feel 
strongly that it is the duty of a free press to try to expose them.
Last comment I will make on this On list!
Regards
  John Duggan,
     Wales, UK


--- On Mon, 3/5/10, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [OM] House fire photos
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Monday, 3 May, 2010, 22:54
> This is standard operating procedure
> by any government - the British  
> government controlled the images and info coming out of the
> Falklands  
> very well indeed and that's now become the norm (embedding
> for  
> instance).
> Not the place to open this can of worms John, except in a
> very general  
> sense, and not the place to push a barrow of this type.
> In this way, flame wars are triggered and they cannot be
> easily  
> controlled.
> We know...but take it elsewhere.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
> On 04/05/2010, at 7:27 AM, JOHN DUGGAN wrote:
> 
> > I completely agree Ken.
> >   photography is a powerful tool for
> social/ change.
> >
> >   The Israeli government are past
> masters at covering up their  
> > atrocities against Palestinian  CIVILIANS.
> >  Until the photographic evidence of maimed
> civilians and children is  
> > shown the government will continue to peddle their
> propaganda. It is  
> > difficult to explain away photographs of dead and
> maimed children as  
> > a just response!
> >
> > I do not think it is co-incidental that the Israeli
> government does  
> > everything in it's power to obstruct international
> journalists/ 
> > photographers whenever it decides to take military
> action!
> >
> > Regards
> >  John Duggan,
> >     Wales, UK
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> Weegee would never have been able to make it in
> today's
> >> news coverage.
> >>
> >> How about all those Pulitzer winning photographs
> from the
> >> past?  There was
> >> recent discussion of the photo of Jack Ruby
> shooting
> >> Oswald. That photo
> >> would never run now. What about Boris Yaro's
> iconic photo
> >> of Robert Kennedy
> >> laying on the floor? These are photographs of
> tragic
> >> events, but without
> >> these photographs, we as a society may not
> change.
> >>
> >> As long as we fail to put a face to car accidents
> caused by
> >> drunken drivers,
> >> for example, we as a society won't take ownership
> in the
> >> solution. Whether
> >> or not we WANT to see blood, guts and even death,
> without
> >> seeing it, we have
> >> no ownership in solving the problems.
> >>
> >> At least one of our major television networks has
> a policy
> >> of no longer
> >> showing any footage of the 9-11 disaster because
> it unduly
> >> tramautizes our
> >> children. What utter hogwash. Let's not teach any
> history
> >> in school because
> >> there are wars in our past and we all know that
> wars mean
> >> gunshots, blood
> >> and death.
> >>
> >> My opinion only--excuse my venting, but this is a
> sore spot
> >> with me. I do
> >> understand the other side to this and I agree with
> some of
> >> the points, but
> >> on balance I believe it's misguided thinking.
> >>
> >> AG
> >> -- 
> >>
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