Photographer fired
I'm sure most people have now heard that a Los Angeles Times photographer was fired Tuesday for digitally manipulating a photograph taken while in Iraq. As of right now, the discussion has gotten nearly 500 comments over on Slashdot. Since it's stupidly late right now and I have to be up early, I didn't read all the comments, but one thread did jump out at me. In it, people were saying the Times was too harsh in immediately firing the photographer. I think this article does a good job of getting all the sides.What it all comes down to is ethics. Ethics form the bottom line of journalism, and that's that. It's like the rant in my previous post: Journalists can't get lazy. We have a duty to do, and if we slack off, we're failing others. The slackers are the ones who give reporters such a bad name, and I hate it. In my opinion, the Times was more than justified in firing the photographer.
Posted by Layla at 12:47 AM, April 03, 2003
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