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there may be right or wrong answers here as it may be all four...or none
1. oppurtunistic liar
2. cretin in denial
3. just doing his job
4. attempted hero
BBC iPlayer - Newshour: 06/12/2012 (2100 GMT)
BBC - Podcasts and Downloads - Newshour look for 6/12/12 broadcast
no doubt many of you guys have heard by now about the incident in new york where a photographer ( R. Umar Abbasi ) took the photo of a man ( Ki-Suck Han) who was pushed off the platform in front of an oncoming train in the moments before his death. it made the cover of the new york post. bbc newshour got one of the first interviews of the photographer about the incident and what went through his mind at the time. this is a must listen guys, it's at the top of the show .
i have to say, not being there i find his recall and course of action quite dubious. especially his instinct. being that he is a professional photographer i would have to guess his first instinct is to capture the event without much regard about the circumstances and in that i suppose one could argue the guy was just doing his job, as unsavory as it was, and not unlike what a war photographers have done he did was he was trained to do, maybe he even now regrets it, perhaps if he was in any other profession he would have reacted differently. in the interview it sounds as if he is trying to convince himself he took the best course of action at the time , maybe he did. but if i were interviewing him i would ask him if had the person on the tracks been related to him would his instincts have been any different. i await your opinions. Also if what the photographer said is true about all the iphones coming out after the incident being disrepectful and such then these pictures should be all over the net soon and we'll see them whether we look for them or not.
Should The New York Post's Subway Photo Have Been Published? - NYTimes.com
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1. oppurtunistic liar
2. cretin in denial
3. just doing his job
4. attempted hero
BBC iPlayer - Newshour: 06/12/2012 (2100 GMT)
BBC - Podcasts and Downloads - Newshour look for 6/12/12 broadcast
no doubt many of you guys have heard by now about the incident in new york where a photographer ( R. Umar Abbasi ) took the photo of a man ( Ki-Suck Han) who was pushed off the platform in front of an oncoming train in the moments before his death. it made the cover of the new york post. bbc newshour got one of the first interviews of the photographer about the incident and what went through his mind at the time. this is a must listen guys, it's at the top of the show .
i have to say, not being there i find his recall and course of action quite dubious. especially his instinct. being that he is a professional photographer i would have to guess his first instinct is to capture the event without much regard about the circumstances and in that i suppose one could argue the guy was just doing his job, as unsavory as it was, and not unlike what a war photographers have done he did was he was trained to do, maybe he even now regrets it, perhaps if he was in any other profession he would have reacted differently. in the interview it sounds as if he is trying to convince himself he took the best course of action at the time , maybe he did. but if i were interviewing him i would ask him if had the person on the tracks been related to him would his instincts have been any different. i await your opinions. Also if what the photographer said is true about all the iphones coming out after the incident being disrepectful and such then these pictures should be all over the net soon and we'll see them whether we look for them or not.
Should The New York Post's Subway Photo Have Been Published? - NYTimes.com
as i write this a banner at the top of the forum is telling me that three people have unfriended me, their loss
