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Trump Volunteer Blocks Photographer’s Camera, Plan Backfires https://ift.tt/2PShOwf A volunteer at a rally for President Donald Trump reached out his arm last night to block a photojournalist’s camera as he tried to photograph a protester. Another photographer caught the move on camera, and today that photo-blocking volunteer has unintentionally become a viral news story. This curious case of the Streisand effect — in which an attempt to censor something makes it publicized much more widely — is courtesy Evan Vucci, the Associated Press’ Chief Photographer in Washington. Vucci was at the campaign rally in Indiana when a protester disrupted the event. He then spotted and photographed the advance team volunteer attempting to prevent the photo by sticking his hand in front of the DSLR’s lens. “A volunteer member of the advance team for #president #donaldtrump blocks the lens of a photographer trying to take a photo of a demonstrator during a #campaign rally in #evansville #indiana,” Vucci wrote in the caption.
Interestingly (and ironically) enough, Trump had strong words about censorship during the same rally. “There’s a thing called free speech rights,” Mr. Trump said at the rally. “I’ve made it clear that we as a country cannot tolerate political censorship, blacklisting, and rigged search results.”
It’s unclear whether the photo block was successful, but the volunteer’s attempt at suppressing news of the protester has backfired: the photo of him blocking the lens has gone viral today and is being published by major media outlets both in the United States and internationally. Photography News via PetaPixel https://petapixel.com August 31, 2018 at 10:42AM
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