How is your Monday going?
So you’re having a bad Monday? Have a lot on your mind? Worried about the price of gasoline for your SUV? Wondering which restaurant you will eat at this evening?
U.S. Army Spc. Caleb Joye, of Manning, South Carolina, smokes a cigarette while resting on the roof of a house in Ramadi, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 19, 2006. Hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi troops pushed into an eastern section of Ramadi, one of Iraq's most violent cities, the latest step in a campaign to gradually bolster their presence in city neighborhoods that for months have largely been under insurgent control. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)I am sourcing this photo, but I will not follow the AP’s directions…….the AP says I can’t use this photo……I am saying to AP……you would never have been able to take this picture without taxpayer money protecting your bigoted behinds.
Am I supposed to believe the AP, somehow ended up on this rooftop in enemy controlled territory without the help of taxpayers?
So I have no qualms about using it.
Hey AP; if you want to deny taxpayers the right to use the pictures you take, go take the pictures on your own…..
Fly to the war zone on commercial aircraft….which would mean flying to Jordan and taking a bus to Baghdad, enjoy the ride…….When you get to Iraq, find your own hotel room, food and entertainment. Taxpayers are getting sick and tired of wasting money on the clueless and unpatriotic dropouts from reality, called the media. If you want to get to the battlefront, take a taxi, instead of a safe ride in a humvee driven, and protected by the same soldiers you slander day in and day out. Protect your own sorry behind bigot. Then maybe I’ll respect your request to not copy…..or rebroadcast. I figure this photo cost taxpayer money and warrior blood…..so stick it media bigot. NO, you can’t have it both ways media….do it on your own….if you want it done. Again, I consider this a taxpayer photo…..so buzz off AP, and hopefully many more will take up this battle against those that slander our wonderful men and women putting their life’s on the line for the USofA.
Am I supposed to believe the AP, somehow ended up on this rooftop in enemy controlled territory without the help of taxpayers?
So I have no qualms about using it.
Hey AP; if you want to deny taxpayers the right to use the pictures you take, go take the pictures on your own…..
Fly to the war zone on commercial aircraft….which would mean flying to Jordan and taking a bus to Baghdad, enjoy the ride…….When you get to Iraq, find your own hotel room, food and entertainment. Taxpayers are getting sick and tired of wasting money on the clueless and unpatriotic dropouts from reality, called the media. If you want to get to the battlefront, take a taxi, instead of a safe ride in a humvee driven, and protected by the same soldiers you slander day in and day out. Protect your own sorry behind bigot. Then maybe I’ll respect your request to not copy…..or rebroadcast. I figure this photo cost taxpayer money and warrior blood…..so stick it media bigot. NO, you can’t have it both ways media….do it on your own….if you want it done. Again, I consider this a taxpayer photo…..so buzz off AP, and hopefully many more will take up this battle against those that slander our wonderful men and women putting their life’s on the line for the USofA.
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9 comments:
Outstanding post WL! I'm going to post a link to it.
I've had a heck of a time lately getting your blog to load. Today was the first time in over a week that it worked right for me. Maybe it's an IE thing.
Great post!! Thanks, I really enjoyed it and hell yes, I agree with you 100%.
Well Done!
I like these other Americans agree whole heartedly with you. In fact, I think it was my $5.96 that paid for the film in his camera the day he took that pic!
God bless the families of those fallen heros that faught and died for our right to be free, and God bless the Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen that still fight!
As a photographer, I'm extremely troubled by your attitude in this. Yes, they're taking advantage of taxpayer money, but so are you. All the time. America's military is always protecting you whether you're aware of it or not.
Why should an artist be denied the benefits of a valid copyright just because he was using taxpayer money? So people who get grants fromt the National Endowment for the Arts should not be allowed to retain their copyrights just because they are using taxpayer money? I think they would rather turn down the endowment.
Not only that, but allowing the media access to the war zones helps with PR, so they're actually providing a valuable service to the military with the taxpayer money.
This post really bothers me.
Kelly, perhaps you should leave the safety of the media with your talents. If you are a talented photographer, you have a choice, sell out, or create. Yes, I helped pay for a magnicicent military, (Thank you Ronald Reagan), but I don't like my tax money going to turncoats and traitors.....
You can disagree all you want, I know the mind of America, and we are getting sick and tired of turncoats and traitors.
You may be the worlds next greatest photographer, but if you work for CNN, ABC, CBS, New York Times, or NBC......you are not my friend, for you are working for my countries enemeies.....
The MEAN SPIRITED MEDIA....the msm
You may be decent and good, it would be your employer I have issue with.
If you take a paycheck from the Devil, you are a weakneed American.
Actually, I support the current administration. I don't think they're doing a perfect job, but I think the President's job right now is tougher than it's been since Abraham Lincoln or Andrew Johnson were in office. But I don't think that people who criticize the government should lose their property rights because of it. And that's exactly what copyright is--a property right. What you're doing sounds like communism or fascism to me.
I don't mean to call you names or make you angry. I just want you to think again about your attitude on this matter.
Attitude? According to the AP, the brave man in the photo cannot even reproduce it. Do you think he might have a problem with that? I sure as hell would.
Maybe attitude was the wrong word (is that a loaded word?). Let's use opinion instead.
I wouldn't have a problem with that. I don't see how that's relevant to your use of the picture (which is stealing, essentially).
JWEMP
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
I meant every thing I wrote about a picture I refused to let go of. Your friend Caleb was caught in a Pulizter Prize Pose, in a place no one except the brave would be.
But what a disconnect between what the press wrote, and what happened.
Both Caleb and the media were there on the taxpayers dime......
It just angers me to know the turncoat media gets protected while writing lies, trash and opinions about our warriors.
I could write a long long short story about the emotions this picture brought to me.....
Someone weighted down with a burden, taking a few minutes to catch a smoke on a rooftop in a warzone.
I didn't say much about how the picture touched me as an American, proud of every young man or woman who risks their life for me.
Then there is the msm
mean spirited media.
There is a blog of lawyers that has taken up the task of condemning me for blogging this photo.
It really is amusing that some lawyers who think they are worth $400 an hour talk down to someone who could run over and completely pancake their 'Beamer'
Hey lawyers lurking at Sanity's Bluff...........
Bring it on............
You will bring your sources down and expose yourself before you
Cowboy Diplomacy is not dead....
It just reloaded.
Thanks again JWEMP.
And I would be honored to shake the hand of a man who risked all for me, and even you.
Caleb is in my prayers even now.
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