Should a photojournalists ethics be absolute or situational?
Situational on the basis that when you crop or change the the color levels on a photo you are not being professional and keeping it absolute in ethics.
Can a photo really capture truth? Yes in the case of sports i mean when a guy is hanging from a basketball rim then he is hanging from the rim.
What decisions have you made as a photographer that "edit" reality?This really involves in what you are doing to edit a photo. Say im croping out some of the sky in a photo to make it smaller amd I really being unethical? In that am i editing reality. But in the case inwitch i take a couple mols of a girls face then I changing reality of that photo at the time it was taken.
Why is it important that news organizations have clearly defined ethical standards?Well because in a professional news paper your main job is to tell the truth about the news thats going on around you and tell it to the public. Now it is the readers choice to believe it or not but you want it to be asclose to the truth as it can be. Now altering a photo to say brighten the color or croping out something should be situational but still be ethical.
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Er...is your answer situational or absolute? You said situational but then gave a blow to it... and brought in absolute. WHAT?!
If a criminal needs to be caught and manipulated photos of him have been printed, he will not be found. So, shouldn't there be absolute rules so that with the many cases of criminals, they can all be caught?
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