Technology Vs Ethics
We are currently living in a virtual world were everything is controlled by technology, especially the media. With the advance progress of technology new applications started to emerge and give more chances to journalists to have control and manipulate the news.
Photo altered by Al-Ahram newspaper
Photo manipulation is term appeared with the development of technology through out the years. Simply, meaning changing the real picture to give another meaning. This concept was widely used in the summer 2006 in the war between Southern Lebanon and Israel and many images were being manipulated and send to users on the web. Today, the BBC found an interesting incident that happened in the Egyptian press as Al-Ahram one of the most oldest newspapers in the M.E altered an image http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11313738
Although it’s misunderstood in Egypt to have a governing body to monitor because the society and journalists think this is against democracy and freedom of speech.
The real photo was taken in Wash. D.C a week ago.
However, this incident shows that the press in Egypt needs ethics, regulations and monitoring to make sure that journalists are not playing around and faking news or images. With new technology emerging journalists ought to have more ethical standards and principles in order to be a role model in the society.
Yet the question remains, will there be action?
