Touch Up Or Disrupt?

So this week we’re supposed to write a blog on whether or not we think it’s ethical to touch up pictures. If you think about it though, it’s done much more than we realize. How many magazines have photoshopped the people on the covers to make them look more attractive? Does that show journalistic integrity? Absolutely not. But if you photoshop a picture of a flower and take out a water spot, I think it’s perfectly fine. People can say that I can’t argue that making the flower more beautiful is okay if I don’t think it is on the cover of the magazine, but I feel that there isn’t really a need for the images on magazine to be photoshopped, because people aren’t perfect, nor should they strive to be. To take out a water spot out of the picture of a flower, makes the message you are trying to convery with the picture, more clear. And if that’s the case then I think it’s fine. If you change it to try to get your story across more clearly then it’s fine. As journalists, we should be more concerned about the story, and whether or not the story is compromised, rather than the pictures. I really don’t know what else to say on the subject, so I guess I’m going to leave it at that.

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