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B&H: what goes on behind the scenes may surprise you.
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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 500296" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>This.</p><p></p><p>Not to mention that some of the most even handed coverage of <em>many</em> world events that I've read recently comes from Al Jezeera, second probably only to what I get from BBC World News. </p><p></p><p>Consider the source all you want, nowhere in the Al Jezeera report do they mention anything about the owners being Jewish (that all starts in the comments). You want to imply your own prejudices, go right ahead. </p><p></p><p>The fact is the first time I walked into B&H was with my brother over 30 years ago, and then we went to Adorama and 47th Street Photo. They were all cramped little shops run by guys in yarmulkes and if you got there on Friday you better be done your business by 3:30. It's a close and closed community that doesn't tolerate <em>any</em> outsiders very well - and I know and love a lot of them. Knowing what I know about them nothing in any of these reports surprises me, and I'm about as far as you can get from an anti-semite. As they say, business is business, and they've run it this way for decades. Only now the internet has made their mail order explode where before it was just geeks ordering from the back of photography mags.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 500296, member: 9240"] This. Not to mention that some of the most even handed coverage of [I]many[/I] world events that I've read recently comes from Al Jezeera, second probably only to what I get from BBC World News. Consider the source all you want, nowhere in the Al Jezeera report do they mention anything about the owners being Jewish (that all starts in the comments). You want to imply your own prejudices, go right ahead. The fact is the first time I walked into B&H was with my brother over 30 years ago, and then we went to Adorama and 47th Street Photo. They were all cramped little shops run by guys in yarmulkes and if you got there on Friday you better be done your business by 3:30. It's a close and closed community that doesn't tolerate [I]any[/I] outsiders very well - and I know and love a lot of them. Knowing what I know about them nothing in any of these reports surprises me, and I'm about as far as you can get from an anti-semite. As they say, business is business, and they've run it this way for decades. Only now the internet has made their mail order explode where before it was just geeks ordering from the back of photography mags. [/QUOTE]
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