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Skriven 2005-09-08 01:00:34 av Mark (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 7041 av Gary Britt (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Katrina Decimates Dean
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From: "Mark" <nomail@hotmail.com>

Yea, your other elucidation and this one, reminded me of the greater detail.
I'm sure that Chris Graythen now wishes that he'd selected one of his other
photos with blacks in it, but how was he to know in advance what the
opportunists would do with his shot and caption?

"Gary Britt" <zotu@nospamforme.com> wrote in message
news:431fc309$1@w3.nls.net...
> Actually that's not it mark.  One said looting because the photographer
> witnessed LOOTING  (oddly enough) and one said FINDING because the
> photographer witnessed FINDING (oddly enough).  No racism except in the
> minds of the blacks and liberals pushing this false story.
>
> Here's what the photographer that took the finding picture had to say, and
> why it was described as finding (because it was finding).
>
> The photographer who took the Getty/AFP picture (that's the "finding"
> picture), Chris Graythen, also posted the reasons behind his caption:
>
> I wrote the caption about the two people who 'found' the items. I believed
> in my opinion, that they did simply find them, and not 'looted' them in
> the
> definition of the word. The people were swimming in chest deep water, and
> there were other people in the water, both white and black. I looked for
> the
> best picture. there were a million items floating in the water -- we were
> right near a grocery store that had 5+ feet of water in it. it had no
> doors.
> the water was moving, and the stuff was floating away. These people were
> not
> ducking into a store and busting down windows to get electronics. They
> picked up bread and cokes that were floating in the water. They would have
> floated away anyhow.
>
> Gary
> "Mark" <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:431fb836@w3.nls.net...
>>
>> "Robert G Lewis" <r.g.lewis@comcast.net> wrote:
>> > Did you see the two photos where  a black person was  'looting' the
> other
>> > had a white person "scavenging" for food. Funny thing is both
>> > indiviuals
>> > were shown in the water with garbage bags. Nothing else to indicate who
>> > was doing what
>>
>> I believe that one of the photos, the "looting" one, was from AP. The
> other
>> one, which I believe said "finding" not "scavenging," was from AFP
> (France).
>> If both photos were from the same outlet, same editor etc., you might
>> have
> a
>> point, but this is obviously a case of different outlets from different
>> countries/cultures, perhaps due to translation, and probably a random
>> selection of photos at that.
>>
>>
>
>

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