I'm the offending party, but I meant no harm. A half-dozen messages about
the Chilean miners preceded mine. I was simply pointing out that in the
future we can expect to see their story exploited for profit -- and I
illustrated that point by quoting a commercial site using the miners' story
to sell computer parts. I have no relationship with the site or products
they sell -- I'm just saying "Here's how a dramatic, human story becomes
distorted and commercialized." I included a link to the site in question
but they change the site every day to sell different products, so it became
a misleading redirect the day after I posted the message.
It just seemed like a timely idea, but I inadvertently did something wrong,
for which I apologize.
I hope we can get back to the real subject of this list, photography.
Marco Milazzo
-----Original Message-----
From: ADavidhazy
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 7:32 PM
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
Subject: Re: commercials on PF
Lara,
If it was a commercial it would be clearly inappropriate. OTOH, the
poster mentioned
something about media exploitation and how it was already being used
by a company
to sell wireless mice. Somewhat tasteless ad to be sure. I would would
lambaste
Logitech. The link mentioned no longer refers to a wireless mouse so
now it is
like a misleading redirect. Not acceptable. List HQ hopes something
like this does
not happen again. Or else!
Andy
