This is not unusual, Emily, since the Civil War, in fact. Steve Shapiro former US Navy reserve pho-jo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emily L. Ferguson" <elf@cape.com> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 10:26 AM Subject: Re: That's why they call them Smart > There have been some interesting contributions to the discussion on > the http://www.poynter.org site. Jim Romanesko (sp) runs a forum of, > I suspect, mostly word people and they've discussed it during the > last couple of days. More interesting on that site is the extensive > running discussion about the state of the relationship between the > Shrub's administration and the White House reporter pool, as well as > the discussion of the situation between the Shrub's military pool > controls "embedding policy" and the reporters and shooters being sent > to cover this "war". > > Among other things the US military has unmistakably and as a matter > of policy committed itself to dropping bombs on any unauthorized > uplink it discovers. From the point of view of a freelance > journalist hoping to cover this war without either Iraqi or US > "minders" this means they can't transmit their material without being > murdered by us. > > Sites pertaining to that are: > http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z2E626EC3 > > http://www.gulufuture.com/news/kate_adie030310.htm >