Comments on: Does the public care about ethics? PT.1

By: Mark Cornelison

Mark Cornelison — Fri, 04 May 2007 14:59:57 +0000

Thanks alot for the response. I totally agree with you Carlos. I have seen more than my fair share of set ups and it is sickening. TV does “seem” to not share the ethics we try so hard to use in newspapers. I don’t know why.
I am going to address this in an Ethics Pt. 2 post!
Thanks again.

By: Carlos Moreno

Carlos Moreno — Fri, 04 May 2007 08:04:22 +0000

Great post, but it seems that all the comments are from people in the biz.

The public doesn’t seem to care enough to enter the fray. That might say something right there.

I don’t want to pigeon hole a group, but I’ve caught more than my fair share of videographers from TV setting up shots or asking someone to do it over.

The worst I’ve witnessed was a crew that didn’t want to or couldn’t move it’s live truck. So to get a shot of some protestors the crew asked them to move closer to the van and turn toward it so they could get the shot.

I worked at a newspaper at the time and came very close to calling the TV station’s management, but I chickened out.

My bad.

By: Amy Crawford

Amy Crawford — Wed, 02 May 2007 21:17:42 +0000

Amen. Praise God and Amen again. I’m sending this to our photo editor.

By: Tom Eblen

Tom Eblen — Tue, 01 May 2007 05:47:59 +0000

Good post, Mark. Photojournalists shoudl be about fact, not fiction; truth, not invention. What separates the Herald-Leader and most other traditional news organizations from some television and new media upstarts are their ethics and their commitment to telling stories rather than creating them. Does the public care? In the final analysis, I think they do. Or, at least, they should.

By: clay

clay — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:52:21 +0000

preach on, preach on, agree 100%- great post.