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riversedge

(70,242 posts)
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 12:45 PM Feb 2016

Sanders Scored Over Use of Photos

Source: vnews.com




Sanders Scored Over Use of Photos



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Thomas Wiley, of Canaan, N.H., objects to the use of a photograph of himself in a Bernie Sanders political flyer because members of the American Legion are required to be apolitical. The address has been obscured to protect the recipient's privacy. (Courtesy Thomas Wiley)

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

Valley News Staff Writer
Sunday, February 7, 2016
(Published in print: Sunday, February 7, 2016)


Lebanon — With just days before the New Hampshire primary, the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., is taking heat from Upper Valley residents who say his campaign used their images on mailers without their permission.

When American Legion state officer Tom Wiley, of Canaan, was called by the Legion’s top officer in New Hampshire, Wiley didn’t know what it was about, but he said the tone of state Cmdr. John Graham made it clear something was wrong.

“He called me, quite straightforwardly, and asked me, had I endorsed any candidate,” Wiley said Saturday. “He asked specifically about Bernie.”

It was a sensitive subject, Wiley knew, both because the American Legion fiercely protects its image as a nonpartisan organization, and because Wiley is in the early stages of a campaign himself, for the post of New Hampshire’s Department Commander. If he were found to be guilty of flouting the group’s bylaws, it could sink his chances. “I said, ‘No, I’ve never even shook his hand,” said Wiley.

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Sanders Scored Over Use of Photos (Original Post) riversedge Feb 2016 OP
Sanders campaign has been caught redhanded Floridanow Feb 2016 #1
Oops Gothmog Feb 2016 #2
There's this from the article tammywammy Feb 2016 #4
Yet so many of his supporters just yawn. riversedge Feb 2016 #9
Guess Bernie will have to resort to stock photos like other candidates do. Vinca Feb 2016 #3
Yawn. fbc Feb 2016 #5
The horror. frylock Feb 2016 #6
Before anyone starts jumping up and down... gregcrawford Feb 2016 #7
The American Legion is hugely political Justice Feb 2016 #8
Most of their income and ALL of their medical care comes from the Federal Government!!! wolfie001 Feb 2016 #15
Sanders scored? what in hell does that mean? m-lekktor Feb 2016 #10
Perhaps Gloria Steinem should weigh in on that (eom) ThreeWayFanny Feb 2016 #11
3 : berate, scold; also : denounce oberliner Feb 2016 #12
Who cares left-of-center2012 Feb 2016 #13
What a pantload... tabasco Feb 2016 #14
 

Floridanow

(74 posts)
1. Sanders campaign has been caught redhanded
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 01:12 PM
Feb 2016

Doing some screwball stuff like claiming endorsements or when talking to food service workers in Nevada.

tammywammy

(26,582 posts)
4. There's this from the article
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 02:00 PM
Feb 2016
Complaints about the mailers with the photographs from the Lebanon Veterans Day event came the same week the Sanders campaign released a campaign ad on YouTube that included a graphic saying he had been “endorsed by” the Valley News.

The newspaper has made no endorsement in the Democratic race.

His campaign apologized to the newspaper and replaced the video on YouTube with a new version. Both the old and new version quote an editorial that appeared in the Valley News more than a year ago that welcomed a Sanders candidacy, noting “Sanders has been genuinely outraged about the treatment of ordinary Americans for as long as we can remember.”

Vinca

(50,278 posts)
3. Guess Bernie will have to resort to stock photos like other candidates do.
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 01:47 PM
Feb 2016

Who knows if it's a German citizen in the picture or a citizen of New Hampshire? LOL. More much ado about nothing. If people do not want to be in a photo with a candidate, they should stay home and watch it on television. Since I live in NH, I just dug out all the Bernie flyers I've received this week and there are easily 3,000 people in the pictures other than Bernie and Jane. If Hillary had sent me any literature - she didn't - I imagine there would be an equal number.

gregcrawford

(2,382 posts)
7. Before anyone starts jumping up and down...
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 04:06 PM
Feb 2016

Last edited Sun Feb 7, 2016, 04:48 PM - Edit history (1)

... and cackling with gleeful schadenfreude, take a look in the upper left corner of the piece in question. It says "New Hampshire for Bernie."

Is this group directly answerable to the Sanders campaign?

Did the campaign have final approval of the piece?

Did anyone ask the agency that produced the piece if they had gotten all the appropriate releases? That seems to be the most relevant question, since the gentleman in the photo has a very good reason to NOT allow his image to be used in such a piece. There is also the possibility that it is a stock photo that the subject did sign a release for, without ever knowing who might buy one-time rights of reproduction from the stock photo agency that bought it from the photographer. It could also be that the shutterbug played fast and loose with the standard protocols applicable in such situations. A pro ALWAYS has reams of release forms in his or her possession when on a shoot. The simplistic condemnations I have read in the blatant take-down screeds do not address any of these rather important questions.

Were I thee, I would tread lightly until these questions have been answered, as the Valley News reporter should have done. To just lay this at Bernie's feet in a knee-jerk reaction could very well blow up in several faces.

I know people at the Valley News, so I will see what more I can find out. Updates as events warrant.

UPDATE EDIT: The link in the OP didn't work for me, just got a blank page, but go to vnews.com to see the article. It confirms much of what I suggested.

Justice

(7,188 posts)
8. The American Legion is hugely political
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 04:19 PM
Feb 2016

Leader of local chapter my dad joined in NH sends hateful vile email about Obama and Democrsts all the time.

wolfie001

(2,252 posts)
15. Most of their income and ALL of their medical care comes from the Federal Government!!!
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 07:34 PM
Feb 2016

Therefore, they hate Obama and the Democrats. Makes sense doesn't it? Them: me:

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
12. 3 : berate, scold; also : denounce
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 06:26 PM
Feb 2016

Full Definition of score
scoredscor·ing
transitive verb
1
a : to keep a record or account of by or as if by notches on a tally : record
b : to enter in a record
c : to mark with significant lines or notches (as in keeping account)
2
: to mark with lines, grooves, scratches, or notches
3
: berate, scold; also : denounce


http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/score

 

tabasco

(22,974 posts)
14. What a pantload...
Sun Feb 7, 2016, 07:22 PM
Feb 2016

"members of the American Legion are required to be apolitical"


That's a bullshit statement right there.

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