ethics and the picture

[john wells]

Arne =?UNKNOWN-8BIT?Q?Herl=F8v?= Petersen wrote:
> 
> My morbid curiosity made me buy the Saturday Times and see the pictrue
> of Pynchon. He looks more like the baseball cap guy than the
> distinguished gentleman.
> I scanned the picture, but the comments on the list made me decide not
> to post it. I don't want to seem like a vulture.
> On the other hand it might me more democratic to let the list members
> decide themselves if they want to see the picture or not. So should we
> call a vote?

Oh, show the bloody picture! This is getting like the "SECRET" bombings
of Cambodia, the people being bombed sure knew about it, all the
journalists from all the news organizations around the world who were
there knew about it, and reported it, but it was supposedly kept
"SECRET" in the States -- and we were the only yahoos on the face of the
earth who didn't know about it, and our country was doing the bombing!

I figure if the picture of Pynchon is in the Saturday Times, Pynchon
knows about it, and he's a big boy now.  ALL the readers of the Saturday
Times know about it, so what's the big deal?

Geez. What a bunch of hand-wringing sissies.

john