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Photographer Eddie Adams - "Saigon Execution" ruined a life, "Boat of No Smiles" changed 200,000

New York Times - Lens :: Donald R. Winslow writes: Eddie Adams wanted me to understand that “Saigon Execution” was not his most important picture and that he did not want his obituary to begin, “Eddie Adams, the photographer best known for his iconic Vietnam photograph ‘Saigon Execution.’ ” He wanted to be remembered more for his 1979 essay on Vietnamese refugees, “Boat of No Smiles,” and for the hundreds of photographs he’d taken of children with muscular dystrophy.

[Donald R. Winslow about Eddie Adams] Where “Saigon Execution” had ruined a man’s life, “Boat of No Smiles” had changed the lives of more than 200,000 refugees who were being denied entry into the United States.

His story, continue to read Donald R. Winslow, lens.blogs.nytimes.com

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Kevin Sites is an investigative journalist. He's best known as a pioneer of solo war blogging. "Solo war blogging"? - That means, that he uses writing, photography and video to report his stories from some of the most dangerous spots on Earth.

2004 his camera caught a soldier killing a wounded Iraqi in a mosque in Falluja, Iraq. In fact this kind of footage was not his job but earned him accolades from the left ... death threats from the right. While war reporting is always difficult especially with respect to objectivity, he was called "unpatriotic" and "un-American." But he says that as a journalist, "ultimately your loyalty has to be to the truth.":

"The blog gave me a voice to directly clarify what I had seen and videotaped; my account didn't have to be filtered through someone else's writing or perspective. I was able to take responsibility for my actions while providing background that helped people achieve a fuller understanding."

Wired.com: Interview with Kevin Sites -
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/rave.html?pg=8

Kevin Sites is hosted on Hot Zones (Yahoo): http://news.yahoo.com/top-stories/hot-zone