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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
All this carping about FR getting credit is a little silly. Did FR take the photo? Does FR own the photo? I presume not, since it is attributed to "Corbis" which is a professional photography service.

Some Freeper -- I presume it's you, HLL, whom I've long admired here -- has done a great service for Bush's cause and for the news business for creatively and smartly Googling and coming up with this gem of a photo. So perhaps FR deserves a smidgen of credit for finding the photo, but since it does not own the photo, true and full credit goes to Corbis for taking and owning the photo.

Frankly, I suspect the slight to FR was not intentional on the part of The Washington Times. That paper has mentioned FR in the past, and will doubtless do so again. It was probably only made aware of the Kerry/Fonda photo through Newsmax, which advertises heavily on its website. Freepers everywhere should be proud that, even if the glory spotlight is not currently shining on this site, Free Republic in this instance is having a MAJOR impact on the election.

Whining over "credit" does not become us.

177 posted on 02/11/2004 9:22:27 AM PST by seamus
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To: seamus
I agree that this push for "credit" is pointless, especially when we have newbies who are denying that this photos even shows John Kerry...

Kerry and Hanoi Jane Photo

183 posted on 02/11/2004 4:00:39 PM PST by weegee (Election 2004: Re-elect President Bush... Don't feed the trolls.)
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