Sarah Liese, Tyler Kelly, Italiana Anderson, Cathy Ryngaert
10 Ethical Questions:
We need to know who has the ownership to the photo. Without this, we will not know be able to conclude who’s in the wrong
Our journalistic purpose is to tell the truth and keep the readers informed so they can make sense of the world around them.
Our ethical concerns are manipulating a photo in a way that creates a false sense of reality and that could ultimately harm the public.
“Don’t deceive a trusting audience with manipulated reality and don’t offend an unsuspecting audience with your gritty reality” (ME, 198).
Have a diverse newsroom that encourages open speech.
The stakeholders are always the public.
As an audience, we would be upset because of the …show more content…
And in this case, losing the the trust of Jennifer Aniston and her trust going forward.
Use photos that you absolutely know are real and have been approved by all parties.
In this case, Redbook did not justify their thinking. They should have verified the validity of the photo with Aniston’s publicist. This would have kept their loyalty to the public by presenting the truth. 2. The Enlightenment philosophy of “what is verifiable, replicable, universal,” holds true to our case study. If Redbook would have verified their photo before publishing it on the front cover, they would have never lost the truth of their audience or Jennifer Aniston. Yet, they went forward with their photo that was not necessarily honest or what the Enlightenment philosophy defines as truthful.
3. We choose responsible capitalism because Redbook published Aniston on the cover to increase their sales. They were not thinking about the public’s best interest. They were only considering their own economic …show more content…
Accuracy, confirmation, and equity relate to our news story. First of all, we choose accuracy because the validity of the photo is not completely identifiable. Confirmation because they should have confirmed with Aniston’s publicist and the photographer before releasing the photo on the front cover. Equity because Redbook did not run a corrected version of the magazine with an “accurate” photo of Aniston.
5. In the NPP, it states, “Be accurate and comprehensive in the representation of subjects.Resist being manipulated by staged photo opportunities.” We choose this because if Redbook would’ve followed these rules, they would not have lost Aniston’s trust or have deceived the
10 Ethical Questions:
We need to know who has the ownership to the photo. Without this, we will not know be able to conclude who’s in the wrong
Our journalistic purpose is to tell the truth and keep the readers informed so they can make sense of the world around them.
Our ethical concerns are manipulating a photo in a way that creates a false sense of reality and that could ultimately harm the public.
“Don’t deceive a trusting audience with manipulated reality and don’t offend an unsuspecting audience with your gritty reality” (ME, 198).
Have a diverse newsroom that encourages open speech.
The stakeholders are always the public.
As an audience, we would be upset because of the …show more content…
And in this case, losing the the trust of Jennifer Aniston and her trust going forward.
Use photos that you absolutely know are real and have been approved by all parties.
In this case, Redbook did not justify their thinking. They should have verified the validity of the photo with Aniston’s publicist. This would have kept their loyalty to the public by presenting the truth. 2. The Enlightenment philosophy of “what is verifiable, replicable, universal,” holds true to our case study. If Redbook would have verified their photo before publishing it on the front cover, they would have never lost the truth of their audience or Jennifer Aniston. Yet, they went forward with their photo that was not necessarily honest or what the Enlightenment philosophy defines as truthful.
3. We choose responsible capitalism because Redbook published Aniston on the cover to increase their sales. They were not thinking about the public’s best interest. They were only considering their own economic …show more content…
Accuracy, confirmation, and equity relate to our news story. First of all, we choose accuracy because the validity of the photo is not completely identifiable. Confirmation because they should have confirmed with Aniston’s publicist and the photographer before releasing the photo on the front cover. Equity because Redbook did not run a corrected version of the magazine with an “accurate” photo of Aniston.
5. In the NPP, it states, “Be accurate and comprehensive in the representation of subjects.Resist being manipulated by staged photo opportunities.” We choose this because if Redbook would’ve followed these rules, they would not have lost Aniston’s trust or have deceived the