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Celebrating 80 years of Press Photography in Southern California e Press Photographers Association Just of Greater Los Angeles One September 2016, Volume 80, Number 3 DOWNLOADABLE EDITION Check our web site at www.ppagla.org for complete More, Jr. monthly contest results and judges comments Ringo Chiu/LA Business Journal/Freelance MAY, GENERAL NEWS, FIRST PLACE: A boy scout salutes after placing U.S. flags in front of each grave stone at the Los Angeles National Cemetery on May 28, 2016, for the Memorial Day celebrations in Los Angeles. IN THIS ISSUE President’s Point Pete Noyes Becomes May Photo June Photo 3Message 4Standings Honorary5 Member Contest6 Results Contest9 Results PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE & NEWS Trump victory threatens media rights By John McCoy CNN was playing on the wall. and social media had ruled the I think they should check their PPAGLA President As stunned Democrats milled day. sources. around the room, and early A myriad of other factors The soon-to-be resident at Election day Tuesday, Nov. 8, returns were broadcast, a sense came into play to generate a 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue be- 2016 is a day that will haunt me. of dejection hung over the room Trump victory. We speculate lieves that the media should be I will never forget like a funeral pall. now, but only history will di- controlled, and lawsuits threat- standing on the sidewalk How could the polls vulge the final analysis. ened whenever he, or anyone, in front of the Farm- have gotten it so wrong? I shot a photograph of a man disagrees with the message. ers and Merchant bank How could all of those and his girlfriend walking past Now more than ever, it’s time awaiting Los Angeles political pundits who the front entrance of the bank, to use our journalistic abilities Mayor Eric Garcetti, favored Clinton, have the balloons arching around the to the highest standard. All we who would soon arrive been so smug? doorway did little to portray the have is our ethics and profes- for his election evening Television networks despair in the room. The couple sionalism. Our credibility has party. It was about 7 p.m. had played Trump sound walked on past. been shaken. and fellow photographer Rob bites to the near exclusion of all Then something unsettling We should all strive to tell the Gauthier stood next to me read- other candidates. It was wildly happened. The man wheeled and truth with our images. We need ing the New York Times from entertaining theater that was came at me, “Did you just take to observe and document the his iPhone. great for ratings. Surely every- my picture? You can’t just take world around us without allow- What he said caught me by one would understand the satire. pictures of anyone you want. ing our presence to impact the surprise. The Times had just The media had gone tone You need to delete that!” story. We need to be photojour- called the election in favor of deaf. Many reported facts that That’s the America we live in nalists. Donald Trump. supported a liberal bias. People now. People distrust the media, And when a bully demands Inside the bank building, a 40 in the rust belt of America had and have a belief that the First that we should not take a picture, foot wide projected image from bought what Trump was selling, Amendment should be limited. we must be resolute. WHAT’S GOING ON MEMBERS VOTE IN CLIP CONTESTS WE NEED YOUR VOTES The winner of the monthly contest is now in your hands. Each month the contest will be entered from the 1st to the 15th, and get judged from the 16th through the end of the month. If you have any problems with the process, please inform our webmaster Khai at: [email protected] You do not need to enter the contest to vote! You cruise the Internet for interesting stories and photos every day. Now its your chance to cruise PPAGLA to see, and vote for the photos! Vote Jim Ober each month at http://contests.ppagla.org! ‘One Golden Moment’ SOCIAL MEDIA Former Herald-Examiner photographers met with L.A. Public Library photo GET THE WORD OUT achieves staff to celebrate the publishing of the book “One Golden Moment,” In the current world of social media, one of the a collection of photos from the 1984 Olympics taken by ex-Herald staffers. things that PPAGLA is concerned about is how Photographers Jim Ruebsamen, left, Javier Mendoza, author of the book David to make your organization more social. We have Davis, L.A Public Library’s Christina Rice, Dean Musgrove, and Paul Gonzales, SEPTEMBER 2016 a page on Facebook at https://www.facebook. • ex-1984 Olympic Boxer who wrote the book’s forward section. The book is com/PPAGLA/ and a private members- available for purchase from the Library’s website. only group at https://www.facebook.com/ groups/1041755852508596/ We also are making the contest more social by SAVE THE DATE: ANNUAL BANQUET allowing all of our members to see the amazing Mark your calendars for the PPAGLA Annual Awards Banquet Luncheon! It will images that are entered in the contest each be held at Almansor Court in Alhambra on Saturday, April 1, 2017. The meet and month. Check out the winners from previous greet starts at 11 a.m., and the brunch starts at noon. The price will be $40 per contests, and enter your own work all through person and $50 at the door. Former Sports Illustrated photographer and Kodak our web page. JUST ONE MORE, JR. executive Richard Mackson will be the lifetime achievement recipient. 3 POINT STANDINGS 2016 CONTEST POINTS THROUGH JUNE 2016 Keith Birmingham Pasadena Star-News 560 Ringo Chiu Los Angeles Business Journal / Freelance 420 Terry Pierson The Press Enterprise 410 Thomas R. Cordova Daily Breeze / Press-Telegram 210 Will Lester Inland Valley Daily Bulletin 200 Mindy Schauer Orange County Register 170 Bill Alkofer Orange County Register 100 Ed Crisostomo Orange County Register 90 Karen Quincy Loberg Ventura County Star 80 Rachel Luna San Bernardino Sun 70 Micah Escamilla Redlands Daily Facts 70 Michael Goulding Orange County Register 70 Ronen Tivony Freelance 70 Jennifer Cappuccio Maher Inland Valley Daily Bulletin 50 John McCoy Los Angeles Daily News 30 Michael Owen Baker Los Angeles Daily News 30 Katharine Lotze Santa Clarita Valley Signal 30 Jayne Kamin-Oncea USA TODAY Sports Images 30 Paul Rodriguez Orange County Register 30 Allen J. 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Ninety-nine members of the News Geezers were in atten- dance, the third largest gathering of the organization, comprised of retired and semi-retired Los Angeles journalists, in its six Pete Noyes, center, with the News Geezers who worked with him. year history. Noyes began his career at “Stars and Stripes” and L.A. included helping to found the City News Service more than original KABC-TV News de- 60 years ago, eventually moving partment in the 1950s, a decade into television with the launch of as one of the first reporters for The Big News on KNXT Chan- The Big News, and another 10 nel 2 in 1959. years as political reporter and The Big News was the first moderator of KNBC’s “News of its kind, a one-hour local Conference.” newscast, the broadcast was a Halpert retired in 1989 after giant departure from the thirty- a long career in which his was a minutes of local and national tireless promoter of human and news that had been the norm civil rights as well as a highly until then. It proved to be a respected journalism. huge success and was imitated Long’s storied career began nationwide. at age 14 when he worked his Over his long career in TV way into Fidel Castro’s entou- news, Noyes worked for all four rage during his 1959 tour of network stations in Los Angeles Washington D.C. in various capacities, investiga- He has worked as a docu- tive journalism being his forte. mentary producer on numerous Noyes headed the highly projects and was Senior Field regarded “Unit 4” investigative Producer on NBC’s “Real Peo- arm of KNBC in the 1970s and Pete Noyes, left, with PPAGLA members David Fernandez, David Seger, ple,” the forerunner of today’s early ’80s. Carl Stein, and John McCoy. “reality TV.” He won the prestigious Pea- He worked in several man- body Award in 1979 for breaking and the Watson brothers early in Big News.” agement positions in television the story of the Santa Susana his career. Former recipients of the PPA- news, including stints at KNXT, nuclear meltdown. He was also He values the contributions GLA’s Honorary Membership UPN Television, Disney Televi- sion, KCAL, KCOP, WRC and the recipient of the Edward R.