The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #84217   Message #1557089
Posted By: GUEST,Jon
05-Sep-05 - 09:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Black looters, white finders
Subject: RE: BS: Black looters, white finders
Here is another view. An extract:

The Associated Press said its policy was clear. "When we see people go into businesses and come out with goods, we call it looting," said Santiago Lyon, AP's director of photography. "When we just see them carrying things down the road, we call it carrying items."

Lyon said the photographer who took Tuesday's photo, Dave Martin, had seen the man go into the store and take out the items.

As for the other photo, Getty said it stood by its caption and its photographer, Chris Graythen, who says the subjects of his photo were simply picking up items floating by in the dank waters.