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Photoblogs?
Posted by
Oswaldo Jimenez
9/19/2005 10:13:22 PM
Mr. Steve Outing's suggestion is worrisome coming from a professional journalist. The are many reasons why media outlets must separate professio...
Mr. Steve Outing's suggestion is worrisome coming from a professional journalist. The are many reasons why media outlets must separate professional from "citizen" photojournalism. Ethical issues, as mentioned by Deb Halpern Wenger, are probably the most important. A lesser but important issue is the quality and standard of journalism expected from professional media outlets. The value of web journalism as offered by the Yahoo! example remains a subject to be analyzed. Offering photo galleries for gawking rather than understanding, is perhaps the clearest difference. A blog by “joe citizen” would amount to rambling compared to a report from a professional reporter. Blogs may be a way of communicating but unless there is a "professional journalistic filter," as Ted Koppel once put it referring to the free-flow of images coming out of the Iraq war, it is not journalism. Ethical, balanced, and factual filters bust be present. Another worrisome aspect of reading Mr. Oting’s suggestion is the implication that visual communication, photojournalism specifically, remains, in the minds of many print journalits a lower form of journalism.
Oswaldo Jimenez
Blogging Isabel -- now Katrina
Posted by
Valerie MacEwan
8/30/2005 5:50:36 PM
We've come a long way from blogging hurricanes. Much more popular, that's for sure. See Outing's post from 9.20.2003. The Isabel blogs were treat...
We've come a long way from blogging hurricanes. Much more popular, that's for sure. See Outing's post from 9.20.2003. The Isabel blogs were treated with disdain, news org's didn't want to acknowledge them.
Also -- Trying to spot who's scamming folks w/katrina made-up personal stories will be interesting. (I could post Hurricane Floyd photos of eastern NC and my house and convince people I am in LA, MS or AL. Floating dead pigs and all.)
Flickr
Posted by
Wendell Cochran
8/30/2005 12:20:37 PM
I was really troubled by some things I saw there.
One whole group of pictures had the tag line "I didn't take any of these...
I was really troubled by some things I saw there.
One whole group of pictures had the tag line "I didn't take any of these photos..." but offered no credit.
Many were copyright images I had seen in other venues.
Wendell Cochran
Ethical Concerns?
Posted by
Deb Wenger
8/30/2005 11:00:17 AM
Though the possibility of this is relatively slight in this instance - do you think that one of the reaons that news outlets might continue...
Though the possibility of this is relatively slight in this instance - do you think that one of the reaons that news outlets might continue to separate citizen and staff content is due to the fact that little vetting takes place in the case of citizen content? For example, might a citizen "stage" a photo - piling up debris in a way that makes it more compelling? And do it without even realizing that a news organization would consider this a breach of ethics.
-Deb Halpern Wenger
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