Behind the Scenes: Rewriting the Rules – Lens Blog

Behind the Scenes: Rewriting the Rules

A military command in Afghanistan issues, then revises, media rules.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/behind-21/

Donald R. Winslow, the editor of News Photographer magazine and of the National Press Photographers Association Web site, said, “None of us could recall any time in history that photographers had been banned from taking a picture, even in the Second World War and the first Gulf War.” Those with whom he spoke included Hal Buell, the former photo director of The Associated Press.