TODAY’S AGENDA KYCE Presentation: Erin Video: News, Media and Truth

Should media outlets be required by law to tell the truth?

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (Are those words lies though?) response to controversies

Before you leave: submit story idea (may work together this time)

HOMEWORK: work on your next article if possible Ethics Unit test next Wednesday

I have a good feeling about this Sunday. Browns 24, Bengals 14.

What’s the difference?

When this famous photo from the 1970 shootings at Kent State was

published, editors from Time magazine removed the fence post

that terminates at the head of Mary Ann Vecchio.

Kent State, 1970

Allan Detrich, an award winning Blade photographer, resigned from the staff of The Blade (Toledo) after admitting he digitally altered the content of this photograph that was published on the front page.

Iranian Missile Test, 2008

Editors decided to doctor the photo in order to conceal the fact that the second missile from the right did not fire.

DID FOX NEWS ALTER THESE PHOTOS OF NYT JOURNALISTS WHO WROTE AN UNFLATTERING STORY ABOUT THE NETWORK?

PUBLISHED PHOTO WHAT REUTERS CLAIMS TO BE ORIGINAL

WHAT OTHERS CLAIM TO BE ORIGINAL

WHERE DA’ LADIES AT?

Response

Is it a big deal if people doctor images to remove undesirable details that do not necessarily change the meaning of the photo? Why or why not?[consider: is there a difference between cropping a photo and removing a small detail?]