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by nicholassmith
5052 days ago
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I'd just woken up so I didn't qualify this as much as I should have, all though the tl;dr is just the three words above. Newspapers are based around a mission of delivering facts (or at least the facts they want to share), and when that core rule is violated the inherent trust is broken. So when someone is misquoted, a story manufactured and so on then the journalists have failed, are fired and cast out of the community (mostly). Photography was one of the biggest changes to news reporting as it allowed facts to be visually disseminated as well, but because they're essentially a snapshot of the moment as it had happened modification of almost any kind was immediately held up as a no-no. Some newspapers are getting a bit more progressive, but every 3-6 months in the photography community there's a discussion regarding whether the tools photographers use should be allowed in photojournalism, or whether in the central mission of delivering the truth photo modification, even in a trivially form, is counter as how can you say the changes haven't gone further. For the more curious:
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/06/15/time-travel-and-ethical-... http://www.petapixel.com/2012/03/08/should-photo-contests-re... http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2006/08/ethics.html http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/22/opinion/phones-instagram-a... |
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