Comments on: The Photographer’s Insult http://wordstudio.net/thegist/?p=224 Writing, geekery, and writing about geekery. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:30:36 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Renky http://wordstudio.net/thegist/?p=224&cpage=1#comment-804 Renky Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:15:58 +0000 http://wordstudio.net/thegist/?p=224#comment-804 If you don't understand why it hurts to have people come and gawk at your pain you have clearly never been the victim of a disaster. Just the act of taking a picture doesn't make it gawking. What makes it gawking is coming in, taking lots of dramatic pictures, not expressing any concern or sympathy, and not helping with the recovery. Disaster tourism is gawking. If you don’t understand why it hurts to have people come and gawk at your pain you have clearly never been the victim of a disaster. Just the act of taking a picture doesn’t make it gawking. What makes it gawking is coming in, taking lots of dramatic pictures, not expressing any concern or sympathy, and not helping with the recovery. Disaster tourism is gawking.

]]> By: Paw http://wordstudio.net/thegist/?p=224&cpage=1#comment-795 Paw Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:15:32 +0000 http://wordstudio.net/thegist/?p=224#comment-795 If it was a shameful thing to look for other's pain, we wouldn't love all the photographers chasing Britany or Princess Di the way we do. It was endearing to hear how some used their appearance at the scene as an opportunity to take pix instead of rendering aid to the dying Dianna. So, like all things, I guess it's a matter of degree. It can be both shameful and instructive, ugly and inspiring. If there was a clear answer we could have a measure of the worth of CNN et al. If it was a shameful thing to look for other’s pain, we wouldn’t love all the photographers chasing Britany or Princess Di the way we do. It was endearing to hear how some used their appearance at the scene as an opportunity to take pix instead of rendering aid to the dying Dianna. So, like all things, I guess it’s a matter of degree. It can be both shameful and instructive, ugly and inspiring.

If there was a clear answer we could have a measure of the worth of CNN et al.

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