Photo Manipulation and Ethics

Journalists use photo manipulation to either improve their photos so that they would be recognized more or as a prank towards others. They got fired because of that, their pictures were just lies. Changing the photo created a lie between the journalist and the readers/viewers. By revising the Ethics code that was created back in the 1940s they were able to prevent such things.

I think this type of photo editing is ethical in some situations. But it's very unethical if you use it to create huge lies that will, later on, be discovered. It's unethical because if the person whom you take the photo of and then manipulate it, and they see it, you will be hurting them.

 To me this photo is the most unethical because Saddam and W. are not even debating. It just looks that way because of the way they are standing and the whole "Saddam wants to debate" thing is just a lie.

This photograph was the least unethical to me because the photo was altered so that her teeth wouldn't look so messed up, and so that they looked nice.