Revisiting that column last month, Mr. Halstead wrote that, if anything, conditions today were worse than he had predicted. To be a photojournalist today, he wrote, You have to be crazy.
I'm crazy, old and still enjoy photojournalism as a way to capture events, history and people.
On a related note, which probably won't make the headlines...
In 1958 United Press, as it was then known, merged with International News Service owned by William Randolph Hearst. In 1982 it was sold once more by the Scripps Howard newspaper chain for $5 million and in the next decade sold another three times.
1982
The E.W. Scripps Company said yesterday that it had sold United Press International, the news service, to the Media News Corporation, a new privately owned company. Media News, based in Nashville and owned by four newspaper and television executives from the South and Middle West. United Press International was purchased in May 2000 by News World Communications, a media company owned by Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. The Moonies own the Washington Times and UPI.
I can't find the story on the wire services, but if I heard right (subject to factual confirmation) UPI has been sold yet again.