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Digital Cameras Change War Photo-Journalism
prakslash writes "Back in 1945, it took three days between the time U.S. Marines raised the flag on Iwo Jima and the famous picture of the historic moment was published in all the newspapers. In 2004, it took barely an hour before the explosive photos from an Iraqi prison were seen all over the world. This drives home a defining fact of 21st century - the pervasiveness of digital photography and the speed of the Internet are making it easier to see into dark corners previously out of reach of the mass media. As reported in
recent news, some of the most shocking Iraqi photos were not taken by photo-journalists but by soldiers and government contractors who used a digital camera, a CD burner and an internet connection to zip the photos around the world with an ease that has never existed before."
I may not be directly involved but not trying to sound crass or anything but ... this is a war. People are getting killed. Pictures are taken of prisoners that are hurt and wounded. Let me repeat - this is a war, ugly things happen. this is exactly what happens during a war - Geneva convention or not this is reality. I don't like it and nobody does but... people are being killed everyday as happens in a war.
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The fact is that there really is no issue whether those prison photos were taken digitally or on film. They posed for those pictures and those photos and more existed for months.
If the editors wanted to bring this topic up, they could have done so without wrapping it around some bogus, nonexistent tech issue. The agenda was clear, look at what the thread is really talking about.
Stop being so underhanded, editors.
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I wonder what kind of crazy shit goes on in his head. Does he believe in God? How does he feel about his eventual trip to hell?
evil is as evil does
I think we need to get the photos from the contractors that were burned and hung from a bridge in Bagdad. Let's not forget that.