To be honest, Boris, I went back through this thread to look at the individual posts. One in particular is harsh. The rest express different versions of the view that it would have been better not to publish the photo than to modify it. I hardly think this is a overly reactionary position, so I'm a bit puzzled by your reaction.
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/9/2011 16:56, Mark Roberts wrote: >> >> Igor Roshchin wrote: >> >>> http://goo.gl/5LmLv >> >> Very creepy. >> >> Also, they're probably violating copyright unless their licensing for >> that photo included the creation of derivative works (very unlikely). > > Creepy indeed. And wrong. > > There is a post in The Online Photographer on the matter: > http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/05/hillary-clinton.html > > And frankly, I am frightened by some of the comments under this post. I > produced a reply therein that hasn't been moderated yet, so you don't see > it. So to re-iterate it here - I think that what the newspaper did is wrong > on more than one (or even two) levels, including whatever limited > understanding of Judaism that I have. However, the tone and the wording of > the comments is such that it clearly shows (to me, at least) that "judge a > person by their actions and not by what they are" principle is, how to put > it, still remains rather theoretical one. > > Boris > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
