LA Photog No Fan of Instagram, Hipstamatic
For years, the refrain was everyone’s a critic. Then, thanks to the Web, everyone became a journalist. Now, arguably, the latest variation is everyone’s a photojournalist.
This does not sit well with Nick Stern, a Los Angeles photojournalist with years of experience and many stamps in his passports to prove it. Via CNN.com Op Ed, he argues that new Smartphone Apps are helping devalue his time-honored profession:
Every time a news organization uses a Hipstamatic or Instagram-style picture in a news report, they are cheating us all.
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