The Buffalo News - Say What?

The Buffalo News - Say What?

The Buffalo News article published August 18th was specifically slanted to examine webcams and their use for video surveillance. Why the News chose to include buffalowebcam in this article is somewhat uncertain...in as much as video surveillance is not what buffalowebcam is all about. Never have people's pictures been captured for any other purpose at all, except when they emailed and asked us to do so for their own personal use.
On the contrary, buffalowebcam is about the everyday image of western New York. Hopefully, it is these images that motivate people to find out more about living here, and coming here to spend money on the various goods and services that Buffalo and the Niagara frontier has to offer. One individual, Charles Okonski, from Los Angeles, actually made a special trip to Elmwood Avenue, not only to have lunch at Pano's and shop at Half and Half, but to request a screen capture of his family for relatives and friends. Why the News article chose to quote two women shopping in Half and Half, that had obviously never even seen the cam pages, is again strange. If the author, Stephen Hagenbuch, had been to the cam pages himself, he might have told these women that their image was so relatively small that no one would have recognized them anyways...thus assuaging their fears of privacy invaison.
Clearly, media like newspapers, television, and radio have a responsibility to report a fair and unbiased view...and yet, they also should be helpful in providing the rest of the world with an accurate and positive image of the region that they represent...when it is justified. Buffalowebcam was totally helpful in assisting the News with this story. The resulting article was less than forthright. Perhaps this is why Buffalo and western New York continue to lag behind the rest of the country in the battle to attract new visitors and residents. Read the article again, HERE, and email us with your comments.