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...also on the map. Three weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal described the scene in a front-page article on the migration of the Northern unemployed to the Sunbelt. Ever since, Tent City's residents, both entertained and irritated, have seen a steady procession of reporters and cameramen pursuing footage and recession-style quotes. The three national TV networks carried stories. "We've had so many reporters out here," says J.D. Dunn, an unemployed construction superintendent from Livingston, Texas, who says he has just landed a job servicing local sewaging plants, "we just can't keep track...
...jangled the eyes of television producers on two continents and offended the artistic sensibilities of still cameramen. "Can't you get him out of that suit?" pleaded one photographer. White House aides feared that it had the whiff of the $2 window at a race track. Foreign functionaries, noting the swaths of plain blue and gray cloaking the ample figures of the other summiteers, looked politely pained when they saw Reagan's cheery plaid clashing with a red carpet or the faded elegance of Versailles...
...this atmosphere, just about every photographer dreamed of executing a stealthy airborne pass over the Falklands. Last week another Sygma photographer and some television cameramen gave it a go by chartering a small private plane. The idea was daring, the result predictable: the plane was fired upon by the Argentines. A prudent and hasty retreat followed. As Master Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt once said, "If you are a reporter, you can be 500 miles behind the line. But a photographer has to be there." Getting there has proved to be quite a problem...
...they were protected by a shield of thick bulletproof glass and surrounded by heavily armed presidential bodyguards. VIP spectators at the military display had been carefully screened before being invited, and were required to pass through metal detectors set up on a slope near the target area. News cameramen were kept 328 ft. from the presidential bunker and warned not to point their cameras at the President "or the guards might open fire...
Usually, when a crisis flares, the chief concern of news organizations is getting their reporters and cameramen on the scene. But when the crackdown came in Poland, the Western press faced a different problem. Scores of journalists, including two TIME correspondents, were already inside the country, but they could not get their dispatches out except by subterfuge. Said Los Angeles Times Managing Editor William Thomas: "We've never seen such a complete clampdown on all avenues of information." Added New York Times Foreign News Editor Robert Semple Jr.: "Even in Iran you could always find a telex somewhere...