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JF Leroy, ‘I am listening’ — duckrabbit

Some of you will have been following the debate about why JF Leroy (Director of the Visa Pour L’Image Festival) has…

via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2010/10/jf-leroy-i-am-listening/

Mr Leroy complains that duckrabbit has ‘slandered‘ both himself and the photographers who appeared at the festival.  Of course technically it’s not possible to ‘slander’ Mr Leroy because slander is spoken, not written, but I think we can all get his point.   You can be the judge of whether this debate was worth having and whether, given the evidence and opinion presented both by duckrabbit and Mr Leroy, our response to the attack on Morel was justified.

Journalism is dependent on asking questions.  It was not duckrabbit but William Klein who suggested  that  Visa resembles ‘a festival of shanty towns without context.’