Apathy?

RoyVarley · #1 05-18-2006, 09:36 PM

In january of this year, there was a public "survey" (really only a single, simple question) conducted by the Melbourne Age newspaper:

Abuse of power : Do you think police warnings to photographers are an abuse of power?

Yes - 0%
No - 0%
Total Votes: 0 Poll date: 18/01/06

Now, it could simply be that people (like me) didn't see the original survey post. But you'd think a few folks would have... but NOBODY voted either way. Maybe, in the grand scheme of things, photographers just don't matter.... [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

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DonLashier · #2 05-19-2006, 03:21 AM

> Abuse of power : Do you think police warnings to photographers are an abuse of power?

Maybe there's a local context/history that I'm missing here, but my reaction would be "huh?" and move on. WTF are they asking? What warnings? About what?

- DL

RoyVarley · #3 05-19-2006, 08:29 AM

Yeah, you're right - there was a local context:

The Story

and the wording was fairly obscure... but still, I figured that at least a couple of Joe Public would have responded. Given the importance of the photographic image in the media, it surprised me that no-one had a point of view on the matter. There you go... no big deal... just thought I'd share.

DonLashier · #4 05-19-2006, 05:17 PM

Well actually that was an issue here in the states too a while back and discussed at length on some of the photo boards. But I think the general public just doesn't grok why a anyone would want to take "industrial" pictures rather than dogs, wives, and kids [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] so it's a non-issue to them.

- DL

HarveyMoore · #5 05-23-2006, 07:35 AM

grok [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

DonLashier · #6 05-24-2006, 12:06 AM

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grok [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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grok (fully understand), or on the wiki comments page "the word we use in 2005 is 'get' ".

- DL

HarveyMoore · #7 05-24-2006, 11:27 PM

and I am a fan of Heinlein..... [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

My favorite quote from him goes something like

"Women and cats will do as they please, men and dogs need to relax and get used to the idea"

harvey