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When newspapers and magazines manipulate photographs, they tell an altered story. In the Beijing photograph, the crowd surrounding the lone man facing the tanks, clearly represents a rally or protest of some sort. This manipulation of the photograph could cause some people to think about a completely different situation than the original photo represented. As mentioned in the article altered photos could rewrite history. If photo editors are not careful, one day they may go too far and cause countries to go to war, cause governments to change their minds, and manipulate the news to serve them.

Photos should not be manipulated for content but for print quality. This refers to editing the brightness and contrast and white balance to correct an image taken in poor lighting conditions. These tools should only be used to make a photo look like real life and to print better on paper. For example if and image was taken in low light and came out dark the editor should be able to brighten the image. If a photograph was taken and it is correctly lit buy the image seems to have a yellow tint due to white balance error, you may certainly edit the photo to maintain a correct color balance. It would not be ok to enhance the colors of images to make parts of an image stand out when the do not in real life.

Pieces of images should not be used to make one photograph for news. The image of Martha Stewart uses Stewarts head was placed on a models body and clearly misleads every reader. At first glance, Stewart looks like she is thin and attractive after coming out of prison. This is an example of what not to do with images. Readers will be outraged if they find out your images were manipulated.

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I believe that graphic images should be printed because of the story they can tell. Many graphic images have been published in papers and they have made an impact on the world around us. In the Everyday Ethics article the author says, “Journalists have a duty to tell stories with words and visual images that connect communities…” I think if more journalists used disturbing but powerful images, more people would care about topics such as child hunger. The media also needs to be carefully about how they use images. If you were to use an image of flag draped coffins it must be used ethical and with the approval of the soldiers family.

I think people can face reality in our society, but I think they are reluctant too do so. Seeing a wounded American solder being transported by his comrades can outrage many Americans. Buy why are they outraged? People should know what war really looks like and be able to decide if they want their country to go to war. Outrage is also compression. If people have some though about an image they can obviously understand what the image is conveying.

I believe news organizations should limit censorship of images to include pornographic material and the faces of dead people. No one wants to see a naked person on the front page. Well some people may, but it is immoral to show a close up of a victim, a soldier, or a childs face. If you had died, would you really want your face all over the news? In the tsunami victims photograph, I think showing the dead children’s faces is too much. If the faces were slightly blurred or if a wider angle had been used the photo would be more appropriate for print. The only issues with a wider angle in this photograph, is that you would lose some of the mothers emotion. I believe that you would not need a large amount of emotion. If you were to try to convince someone to help you for your cause, you would want to use more a more emotional image.

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Long buss ride but totally worth it. It was 6 hours with and hour and a halve break to visit a cathedral. It was cool, you weren't supposed take pictures but i did anyway. When we finally got to the hotel, and i stress finally, we checked in and discovered we were in the heart of the city. I mean the mall was across the street, the royal mile was one street over and pubs, pars and clubs were all over the place. my favorite store was the pound store. Everything in the store was a pound. 2 liters of coke, one pound. Later that night we at at an Italian restaurant. it was so good then we went to a couple of bars and went back to the hotel and later we took a ghost tour. The tour was so much fun. our tour guide was hilarious and after the tour which was only 67 pounds we got a free pint at the "Bank." The next day we went to the castle on the hill top. It was a pretty legit castle. It had canons, it was high, and it had the crown jewels of Scotland in it. Sorry couldn't get a photo of it. We then explored high street, also known as the royal mile. It was the main street in Edinburgh. Search it on Google maps to get a sense of where I was. also search for Grantham. Thats where we started the 6 hour bus ride. I was a fun trip though lots of sleeping and lots of exploring.

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