Photojournalism according to Busst (2012) is a way of life where photojournalists dedicate their lives to tell stories of other people and to document certain events. It follows a strong sense of ethics to prevent the harming the credibility of the field. Other than that, photojournalism requires the photojournalists to be able to share the sense of the story with the viewers and readers. As for the entertainment news, their basic concept is to entertain and there are no specific ethics on which they follow unless specified by the corporations that own the producers of such news (Goldstein, 1998).
First of all, to elaborate more towards the concept of ethics in photojournalism, the ethics are used to ensure that there is no controversies caused by the story told by the photojournalist (Lester, 1999). In addition, other than preventing controversies, the ethics help the photojournalist to be more credible as they are not allowed in anyway to alter the situation that they have reported in the story. On the other hand, the concept of entertainment news is to basically entertain and therefore, in the process of entertaining, several ethical codes may be broken. If a photojournalist attempts to follow these processes, then there is a chance that the photojournalists might lose their credibility or even lose their job at their respective media agencies.
In conclusion, the combination of photojournalism and entertainment news might result in the breaking of ethical codes of photojournalism and therefore, there are risks of losing credibility. Moreover, the concept of entertainment does not justify the breaking of these ethical codes.
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References:
- Busst, N. V. (2012). Telling stories to a different beat: Photojournalism as a “Way of Life”. Unpublished thesis dissertation, Bond University, Australia.
- Goldstein, J. H. (1998). Why We Watch: The Attractions of Violent Entertainment. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Lester, P. M. (1991). Photojournalism: An Ethical Approach. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.
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