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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
French photo-journalist Lucas Mebrouk Dolega 32, dies after being hit in the head by a police fired tear gas grenade in Tunis while covering the disturbances in Tunis for Paris Match. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...ouk-dolega-32/ -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
On 1/28/2011 10:56 PM Rich spake thus:
On Jan 28, 4:39 pm, Savageduck wrote: French photo-journalist Lucas Mebrouk Dolega 32, dies after being hit in the head by a police fired tear gas grenade in Tunis while covering the disturbances in Tunis for Paris Match. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...-lucas-mebrouk... Maybe like hockey players did, one day they'll finally start wearing protective helmets during riots in violent, Third World ratholes? Even a bike helmet would have saved the guy. I'm sure Tunisians would love to hear their country referred to that way .... but of course, who cares about them? Their lives aren't worth as much as ours are. -- Comment on quaint Usenet customs, from Usenet: To me, the *plonk...* reminds me of the old man at the public hearing who stands to make his point, then removes his hearing aid as a sign that he is not going to hear any rebuttals. |
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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
On 2011-01-28 22:56:58 -0800, Rich said:
On Jan 28, 4:39*pm, Savageduck wrote: French photo-journalist Lucas Mebrouk Dolega 32, dies after being hit in the head by a police fired tear gas grenade in Tunis while covering the disturbances in Tunis for Paris Match. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...-lucas-mebrouk... -- Regards, Savageduck Maybe like hockey players did, one day they'll finally start wearing protective helmets during riots in violent, Third World ratholes? Even a bike helmet would have saved the guy. Since photographers started getting "up close" in combat zones they wore the protective available when they could. That didn't help Capa in Vietnam when he tripped that mine. It didn't help Joao Silva last year when that IED took his legs off. Not wearing anything didn't help Tim Page when he received his many disturbing injuries. All the metal in this Nikon http://homepage.mac.com/lco/filechute/Ichinse-01cw.jpg didn't help Taizo Ichinose in Cambodia. In some civil disturbances some photographers/press are able to wear full Kevlar, helmet & vest. However most choose not to, only wearing an identifying non-protective "press vest". Sometimes all they have is the camera. Sometimes they can be the target of either side, The Balkans in the 190's saw a high casualty rate among photo-journalists even]though they wore Kevlar. Sometimes they are caught in the middle of things with nowhere to go and nothing to protect them while they do their work. These guys put themselves out there, sometimes for little reward. This is not the World of the wedding, or fashion photographer, though I would imagine there might be times those guys would like to have protective gear handy I suggest you see James Nachtwey at work. This was a shot of him in the incident when Ken Ooserbroek was killed in South Africa. http://www.peterdeanrickards.com/201...6/inspiration/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwbKP...eature=related and his address when receiving the TED award in 2007 (about 20 minutes); http://www.ted.com/talks/james_nacht...es_of_war.html -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
On 1/28/2011 4:39 PM, Savageduck wrote:
French photo-journalist Lucas Mebrouk Dolega 32, dies after being hit in the head by a police fired tear gas grenade in Tunis while covering the disturbances in Tunis for Paris Match. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...ouk-dolega-32/ Those guys put as much on the line, with less backup than the bravest of troops. I have nothing but admiration for them. -- Peter |
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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
On 1/29/2011 1:56 AM, Rich wrote:
On Jan 28, 4:39 pm, wrote: French photo-journalist Lucas Mebrouk Dolega 32, dies after being hit in the head by a police fired tear gas grenade in Tunis while covering the disturbances in Tunis for Paris Match. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...-lucas-mebrouk... -- Regards, Savageduck Maybe like hockey players did, one day they'll finally start wearing protective helmets during riots in violent, Third World ratholes? Even a bike helmet would have saved the guy. Typical comment from you. Why don't you volunteer to go. Make sure you wear your bicycle helmet. BTW did you start your economics courses? -- Peter |
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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
On 1/29/2011 3:10 AM, David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 1/28/2011 10:56 PM Rich spake thus: On Jan 28, 4:39 pm, Savageduck wrote: French photo-journalist Lucas Mebrouk Dolega 32, dies after being hit in the head by a police fired tear gas grenade in Tunis while covering the disturbances in Tunis for Paris Match. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...-lucas-mebrouk... Maybe like hockey players did, one day they'll finally start wearing protective helmets during riots in violent, Third World ratholes? Even a bike helmet would have saved the guy. I'm sure Tunisians would love to hear their country referred to that way ... but of course, who cares about them? Their lives aren't worth as much as ours are. That's true. But what's the exchange rate? |
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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
There was an Iraq war video on wikileaks showing a US helicopter
machine-gunning an AP photographer in Bahgdad. Apparently the guy on the helicopter mistook the camera of the photographer as an RPG device. -- Alfred Molon http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe |
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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
On 2011-01-29 08:56:48 -0800, Alfred Molon said:
There was an Iraq war video on wikileaks showing a US helicopter machine-gunning an AP photographer in Bahgdad. Apparently the guy on the helicopter mistook the camera of the photographer as an RPG device. Not nearly as bad as US Air Force F4 fighters strafing two US Coast Guard patrol boats in Vietnam with rockets & 20mm fire, killing Navy and Coast Guard crew on both patrol boats and seriously wounding Tim Page who had hitched a ride to get some photographs on the patrol. The US Army then billed Page $400 for medical treatment. Page stapled that bill to a clipping of the story which had run in Time magazine, and mailed it to the Commanding General of the 7th Air Force at Ton Son Nhut AF base. He heard no more. He left VN for about a year, recovering in NYC, and then return to 'nam via Israel. That was when, in 1968, he received the wound which almost killed him, when a piece of shrapnel drove through his brain leaving him paralyzed on one side of his body. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
On 1/29/2011 6:41 AM Bowser spake thus:
On 1/29/2011 3:10 AM, David Nebenzahl wrote: On 1/28/2011 10:56 PM Rich spake thus: On Jan 28, 4:39 pm, Savageduck wrote: French photo-journalist Lucas Mebrouk Dolega 32, dies after being hit in the head by a police fired tear gas grenade in Tunis while covering the disturbances in Tunis for Paris Match. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...-lucas-mebrouk... Maybe like hockey players did, one day they'll finally start wearing protective helmets during riots in violent, Third World ratholes? Even a bike helmet would have saved the guy. I'm sure Tunisians would love to hear their country referred to that way ... but of course, who cares about them? Their lives aren't worth as much as ours are. That's true. But what's the exchange rate? Pretty easily calculated, using news stories in the MSM and their relative ranking (i.e., page placement in the newspaper, etc.). I figure it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 50:1 to 100:1. -- Comment on quaint Usenet customs, from Usenet: To me, the *plonk...* reminds me of the old man at the public hearing who stands to make his point, then removes his hearing aid as a sign that he is not going to hear any rebuttals. |
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Another Photo-Journalist added to the roll of honor.
On 2011-01-29 11:09:09 -0800, David Nebenzahl said:
On 1/29/2011 6:41 AM Bowser spake thus: On 1/29/2011 3:10 AM, David Nebenzahl wrote: On 1/28/2011 10:56 PM Rich spake thus: On Jan 28, 4:39 pm, Savageduck wrote: French photo-journalist Lucas Mebrouk Dolega 32, dies after being hit in the head by a police fired tear gas grenade in Tunis while covering the disturbances in Tunis for Paris Match. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...-lucas-mebrouk... Maybe like hockey players did, one day they'll finally start wearing protective helmets during riots in violent, Third World ratholes? Even a bike helmet would have saved the guy. I'm sure Tunisians would love to hear their country referred to that way ... but of course, who cares about them? Their lives aren't worth as much as ours are. That's true. But what's the exchange rate? Pretty easily calculated, using news stories in the MSM and their relative ranking (i.e., page placement in the newspaper, etc.). I figure it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 50:1 to 100:1. As of 09:45AM, 1/29/2011, 1.41 Tunisian Dinar = $1US = €0.74 (...er, there's an Ap for that) So your wide range guesstimate was not too close. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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