Capturing a rare picture, you smile to yourself with great
content. You know this will be it, your big moment. This is the picture that
will earn you the promotion you’ve been longing to have.
Scanning over the picture, your eyes draw to a small hand
that was caught in the frame. In disappointment, you roll your eyes. This hand
ruined your masterpiece picture.
With a few clicks, the hand that once lingered in the frame is now gone. Your masterpiece has now been restored, but what about your ethics
and creditability?
Throughout this assignment we read many different articles
about the First Amendment and ethics.
While reading over them, I thought to myself what they
personally mean to me as a journalism student. Being able to express myself
throughout my pictures and reports, without being told what to post or where to
post is what the First Amendment means to me, along with providing trustworthy
ethics throughout my work and just being honest.
Ethics is one aspect of this lesson that really resonated
with me. In today’s society, it is very easy for anyone to alter or
significantly change facts or pictures. I feel the way you capture a picture
and what you write about them speaks about you and your character as a person.
Though altering may make the picture more attractive, you are losing not only
your credibility as a journalist, but also your ethics.
The way in which you honor both these aspects will not only speak about your character but also, your work as a journalist.
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment
