I'm not working today so can't check up, but keep an eye out this week and next for a page from '82-3. Larry Lamb (the Brit editor who introduced Page 3 girls to London's Sun newspaper) was then editing the Oz and "distinguished" himself by not publishing any photos on page 1. Here's why. It's a quote from Errol Simper's Media column(June 1, 2000) after Lamb died:<p> <blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr> The scribe well recalls, too, an early Lamb news conference at which the then pictorial editor, Barry Norman, was called upon to present offerings for the front page. There were, perhaps, 10 prints lying there for Lamb's appraisal: gesticulating politicians, opening ceremonies, closing ceremonies, perspiring sportspeople, auditioning chorus lines, and so on. Some might have regarded it as a reasonably impressive short list. But Lamb frowned, then announced there'd be no photograph on the front page next day. Photographs, he said, had to carry genuine news resonance. If they didn't, the paper would get along all the better not running any. <hr></blockquote><p>[ July 11, 2004: Message edited by: Lee ]</p>
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