In this week, I wish to write and analyze about photojournalism ethic. The word photojournalism is combination between photography and journalism. Photography and photojournalism has a different meaning. According to Johnson B.M., Mayer R.E. and Schmidt.F(2004), Photojournalists are the observers of people and events who report what is happening in photographs; skilled communicators whose images are transmitted visually via the printed page.(P.93).
Merrill and coauthor Ralph D. Barney noted that "journalisthic ethics ...should set forth guidelines, rules, norms, codes or at least broad principles or maxims that will lead, not force, the journalist to be more humane and not necessarily more human".
As stated by Belsey A & Chadwick R, on a book titled Ethical Issues In Journalism And The Media has said that 'Journalism is an honourable profession, though many of those who should care for it, often including its own professionals, have dishonoured it."(P.1). As a photojournalist, take a good images with issue has become a matter of political controvesy and public concern.
This image has manipulate, for Bush campaign for president election. Image has presuade people how Bush has powerful on political campaign and hegemoney.
The advantages of photography lies in its denotation and its connotation. The denotative side of the argument helps bring the notion of realism in the photojournalism as it “helps to convey the world”. Denotation proves that the photographer was there to witness a particular event or moment, ‘denotative power helps journalists to do their job as journalists”(Zelizer, B, 2005,p.172).
To conclude, images has powerful meaning and can make people believe what they seeing. As photojournalism need to know the ethic as a guide. Photojournalism is a profession that took real photo and not edited images.
References;
~ Belsey A & Chadwick R,(1992), Ethical Issues in Journalism and the Media, London,Routledge
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