Reply To: Scary new breed of fauxtographers.

[cameraclicker]

At least focus and exposure look good.  I don’t know how the various bricks & mortar newspapers got started but in most respects they are businesses like any other and there is always a bit of uneasiness between the fifth estate and authorities.  And always there is a race to get news collected and published.  Facebook is a bit of a strange place to start a newspaper, but I think it is a strange place to start any business.  As we have already seen many “photographers” have started businesses there, so my sensibilities are probably off.  I’m not aware of anything special you have to do to start a newspaper.  The ethics I am aware of are to tell the truth, fairly represent the news, and limit editing to contrast, brightness, white balance and cropping.

I grew up with Time Magazine, Life Magazine, National Geographic and Time-Life Books, all of which has undoubtedly shaped the way I think of photographs and news.

Here are a couple of Pulitzer winning photos:

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm12.html

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/world_news&id=8652396