How Ethical Should Photo-Journalists Manipulate Their Work?

Manipulation is defined as moving or controlling something by hands, for instance when people are editing their photos they are manipulating it. In the modern world manipulating pictures is almost normal and it is becoming very predominant in today’s society. Editing pictures is nothing new, but the real question is, what happens when photo-journalists start to manipulate their work? Why do so many people agree that it is right to do that? When they do that, they are losing their credibility and it will become an issue of ethics. Journalists shouldn’t manipulate their work for ethical reasons.

Photos journalists are supposed to tell news that is true to their audiences, not News that is not based of manipulation. First of all, the audiences are waiting to receive the real tales from them. This is because that …show more content…
It is true that photos itself are a process of manipulation because it is already inherent. As you can see the journalists had to use manipulation when people had an extremely bad accident; They don’t want to show the bloody scenario, so they manipulate it, to cover it for their audience. On the other hand, they are not showing all the details; with mean, they are not showing the real tales. Journalists can never be biased, they always want to manipulate their photos to get people’s attention. When journalism manipulates their work, they are losing their credibility. For example, the photo on top of this essay of Oj Simpson had been manipulated by a magazine. The image for their cover was to darkening OJ Simpson’s face to make him look evil. This image proves that photos manipulation can misrepresent the news and it is not ethical. This is not the only photo that has been manipulated by the news or magazines, they are more than that, and it is around us. People don’t know how much manipulation is around us this day. It is dishonest to deploy their