Feed the Truth

Feed the Truth

Viewers want to simply know the truth, not the half truth. When images are altered in journalism, the integrity diminishes. There is a responsibility owed to the viewers and altering the images just will make the viewers think about bias which will make them question about the real truth. Photography is used to preserve memories and in photojournalism, it does as well within the historical context. There images taken used to preserve historical moments. During the communist era, images were altered in order to appeal people relating to the regime’s propaganda. In this case of the communist regime, they altered people out of the image which showed certain bias that the regime believes in.

Alerting photographs made an impact on photo journalism for that use as they alienated viewers with propaganda and didn’t provide the real truth. They definitely had something to hide and altering the images prevented the views from knowing the truth. When we look at newspapers and see images, we expect them to be accurate according to the photo journalists’ code of ethics. Code of ethics is making a positive impact as the photojournalist’s provides accurate and unbiased photograph then the viewers is subjected to their own opinion. Altering photographs is definitely unacceptable because we don’t know both sides of the stories when we see it. But when we know do both sides of the issues, we can have all of the opinion as much as we want. Having bias is acceptable, just not in photojournalism. Photographers can have images relating to a certain event but they have a responsibility to alert the viewers and having bias just doesn’t fit in the photojournalism category. Their own interpretation will just lead to forms of art and they can use photos to express their opinion. But in photojournalism, the opinion of the journalism shouldn’t be there and it has made an impact since we question ourselves day to day about the truth.

http://msphotojournalist.com/photojournalism/
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/