Photo Manipulation and Ethics
The article on global journalist speaks of different stories of journalists around the world wrongly manipulating photos and then publishing them. They were all caught and fired and their work was removed from databases. The main idea of the article was basically that manipulation of photos is unethical in the same sense that plagiarism and publishing false information are. I agree that it is unethical, although some cases are much less unethical than others. For example, cropping out all the women in a photo is quite unnecessary and obviously sexist, but cropping out a guy in the background of a photo to emphasize the subjects of a photo isn't that wrong in my opinion. Losing your job and all your work you've ever done as a journalist seems a bit harsh to me, unless of course your photo manipulation was one of the bad cases. The fact that its just an assumed consequence for photo manipulation is a bit scary.
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