It is said that
news must be as entertaining as it is truthful. Do you think both can
coexist harmoniously in the world of photojournalism?
To my
understanding, Photojournalism requires the photojournalists to be
able to share stories of life to the people. Photojournalists also
uses pictures and narrate the pictures with words. Photojournalists
are able to create photos that can impress people by taking an images
of reality. As stated by Busst (2012) that photojournalism is a way
of life where photojournalists dedicate their lives to tell stories
of other people and to document certain events, in which to create
news. Every news follows a strong sense of ethics to prevent the
harming the credibility of the field. As Wright (2004) stated that
ethics is a part of philosophy that is concerned with right or wrong
issues. On the entertainment news., there are no specific ethics to
follow unless it is instructed by the corporations that own the
producers of such news and its basic concept is to entertain.
A
photojournalist must know the concept of ethics in photojournalism as
to create entertaining and truthful news to prevent from
controversies. Lester (1999) stated that the concept of ethics in
photojournalism are used to make secure that there are no
controversies by the story which is told by a photojournalist.
Apart from
preventing controversies, Photojournalist will be more reliable
following the ethics as they are not allowed to change the situation
in anyway that they documented in the story. For the entertainment
news side, in which is basically to entertain has different concept.
Some of the ethical codes may be not be followed during the process
of entertaining. Photojournalists might lose their credibility or
their job at their each particular media organization or corporation
if the attempts to break the ethical codes.
In conclusion, merging
photojournalism and entertainment news might risks a photojournalist
credibility due to breaking the ethical codes of photojournalism.
References:
Busst, N. V. (2012).
Telling stories to a different beat:
Photojournalism as a “Way of Life”.
Unpublished thesis dissertation, Bond University, Australia.
Lester, P. M.
(1991). Photojournalism: An Ethical
Approach. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum
Publishers.
Wright. T (2004) The
Photography Handbook. (2nd ed)
Routledge, London.
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