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The Journalist’s Toolbox – Ethics, Taste, Sensitivity in Photos

The Journalist’s Toolbox – Ethics, Taste, Sensitivity in Photos. Boys locker room hijinks leaves girls angry High school peeping Toms punished Shower peepers give exposed female students jeepers Boys get 'hole' view of girls' locker room High school boys punished for peeping

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The Journalist’s Toolbox – Ethics, Taste, Sensitivity in Photos

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  1. The Journalist’s Toolbox – Ethics, Taste, Sensitivity in Photos

  2. Boys locker room hijinks leaves girls angry • High school peeping Toms punished • Shower peepers give exposed female students jeepers • Boys get 'hole' view of girls' locker room • High school boys punished for peeping • Peeping Toms Found in John

  3. Peeping toms may be in more than just hot water • Female student body assessed though hole poll • Peeping Toms punished for peek at girls? locker room

  4. Locker room peep show lands peeping toms in hot water • Locker-room lookers in hot water (too much of a pun? I like it.) • Hole in shower provides boys with unofficial anatomy lesson; girls outraged • Peepers creepers. • High school girls mad at boys who peered through peephole to girl's locker room

  5. Female student body gets exposed, becomes irate • High school girls get steamed up over peeping Toms • "Porky's" shower stunt lands boys in hot water • High School Boys Use of Hole Angers Girls • Peeping Toms Anger High School Girls

  6. This was my thought process and some of the headlines I came up with • High • School • Boys • Peer • Peep • Peak • sneak • Sneak-a-look • Hole • Water • shower • Peeps peeping • Locker • Watch • Eyeball • Peeping tom

  7. Male peers caught peeping into girls locker room’ • Peers caught peeping into girls locker room

  8. Moi Hed Girls angry at peers over peepholes

  9. Subtle Photo Problems • LETTER TO EDITOR: Where are Jack's shoes? Your picture of "Jumpin' Jack" (Sept. 21) looks cute, but where are his helmet and closed-toe shoes?Tsk-tsk.

  10. Subtle Photo Problems • Article published Sep 24, 2005Poor choice of a photo; poor decision making by parentsThis is in reference to The Sun's photograph (Sept. 21) of a six-year-old boy flying through the air on his scooter without any protective gear.As a parent and an attorney who has represented individuals and families of children who have suffered life-altering brain and spinal cord injuries, I was appalled and outraged to see the Gainesville Sun prominently place a picture of this young boy jumping a scooter over a ramp on a concrete surface without any helmet.It is clearly irresponsible for your paper to highlight and glamorize a young child engaging in such a dangerous activity without any protective gear. Incredulously, the child was doing this in front of his parents' store.

  11. Subtle Photo Problems As a professional who has had to see the effects of closed head injuries on young children, and as a taxpayer who has to offset the costs of individuals involved in catastrophic injuries and damages from failure to have appropriate and proper safety gear, shame on the Gainesville Sun for glorifying this activity as well as the parents of this child who allowed this to happen under their watch.The editor who chose this picture and the parents of this child should both be forced to spend a day in the brain and spinal cord unit of Shands Rehabilitation Hospital so they can realize what can happen when an unhelmeted child's head meets concrete.

  12. Subtle Photo Problems – Two from my own experience • Skating fotos in Anchorage • Playing in concrete canals in Arizona • Can you think of any others?

  13. Photos & Ethics • The L.A. Times fired Brian Walski, a staff photographer covering the war in Iraq for the paper. • Why? • Because an editor discovered that a photo Walski submitted was actually a composite of two images he had captured.

  14. Rice Photo • Intentional or unintentional?

  15. Photos & Ethics • Of course, the ability to manipulate photos digitally can lead to specious charges.

  16. Photos & Taste & Sensitivity • The following photo was AP Photo of the Month in July 2000:

  17. LAS RUSIAS, Texas, July 4, 2000 - A man mourns on the Mexican bank of the Rio Grande after identifying a body found floating in the river. The body was discovered by Border Patrol agents. The man, believed to be a family member arrived at the river, stripped to his shorts and waded into the river to ID the body. The drowning victim was believed to be one of two who died trying to cross the river to the United States on July 4. Photo by Ric Vasquez Valley Morning Star

  18. AP: Photo of the Month • Selected as “best photo” by the Associated Press Managing Editors Association on the basis of: • Composition • Technical quality • Strong news value • Visual appeal

  19. Another example: • How graphic shall we be?

  20. Mutilated hardly describes the face of 14-year-old Emmett Till after his body was hauled out of the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi in 1950. His face was bloated, corroded, and missing an eye. Let’s not forget the power of graphic photos: The Lynching of Emmett Till

  21. The publication of the mutilated face of Emmett Till taken at his open-coffin funeral was, historian David Halberstam has said, the first iconic media event of the civil rights movement. The photo was published nationally in Jet magazine. It appeared nowhere in the mainstream news Let’s not forget the power of graphic photos: The Lynching of Emmett Till

  22. Emmett Till • In "Eyes on the Prize," the PBS documentary on civil rights, Charles Diggs, a former congressman from Detroit, called the Jet photographs: • "probably one of the greatest media products in the last 40 or 50 years, because that picture stimulated a lot of anger on the part of blacks all over the country.“

  23. Emmett Till • Chris Metress, editor of "The Lynching of Emmett Till": "You get testimony from white people coming of age at the time about how the case affected them, but you don't get them testifying, like countless blacks, that the Jet photo had this transformative effect on them, altering the way they felt about themselves and their vulnerabilities and the dangers they would be facing in the civil rights movement. Because white people didn't read Jet."

  24. Emmett Till • Filmmaker, Keith Beauchamp, 34, producer of the new documentary, "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till," recalls seeing the photos at 10. • He told the NYT that the photos had a lasting effect on his life, especially after his parents told him the story. • “It was an educational tool that was told to many African-American men, to teach us about the racism that exists in society today. This has been a major part of our makeup growing up in this country."

  25. How has journalism and the world it reports on changed?

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