I do agree that a photo journalist should protect the truth and represent it as accurately as possible. To achieve this, there is no room for expression or creative license in journalistic photography. If there was room for expression or creative license in journalistic photography the images we saw on magazines would always be corrupted. This would create false advertisement or misleading truth to the article the image coincided with. For example Matt Mahurin manipulated the front page image on TIME magazine of O. J. Simpson to create a more "artful" look because of this viewers of TIME magazine felt they could not trust the creators of the magazine. The situation became even worse when Newsweek made the same image their front cover with no manipulation.
I think the nine journalistic photography guidelines the NPPA laid out is the best way to achieve accurate photographs from their employees. Also, that all journalistic companies should create guidelines that their photographers have to follow. This would not allow anymore inaccurate or manipulated photographs to be published.
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