{"id":220,"date":"2010-01-25T23:08:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T04:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2010-01-25T23:08:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T04:08:55","slug":"not-a-pretty-picture-a-la-times-article-by-james-rainey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Not a Pretty Picture&#8221; &#8211; a LA Times article by James Rainey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Finally, a mainstream media outlet<\/strong> has decided to cover the industry plight or <em>blight<\/em>, if you prefer.\u00a0 The L.A. Times ran a fine piece on January 22, 2010.\u00a0 It can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ycn7te8\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ycn7te8<\/a>.\u00a0 Nice piece, nice job by the writer. The issue of photojournalists and their demise is not addressed.\u00a0 In fairness to the writer, it doesn\u2019t appear that he wanted to go in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s two of the quotes from this article by James Rainy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhotographers are among those who found out most painfully what happens when their work (or a reasonable facsimile) becomes readily available online at little or no cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy friend Blue, an ace with graphics and art reproduction, told me how his field has been beset: Amateurs produce Photoshopped pictures that once wouldn\u2019t have made it out of a darkroom. Workers in India draw corporate logos for pennies on the dollar and e-mail them stateside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This article is definitely worth a look, but be forewarned, it might cause nightmares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a mainstream media outlet has decided to cover the industry plight or blight, if you prefer.\u00a0 The L.A. Times ran a fine piece on January 22, 2010.\u00a0 It can be found at http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ycn7te8.\u00a0 Nice piece, nice job by the writer. The issue of photojournalists and their demise is not addressed.\u00a0 In fairness to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-giving-it-away"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}