Imagine you are a photojournalist. While editing your film you discover that not only did you shoot well, but you have succeeded in capturing a moment that tells the story, contains the emotion and is visually perfect. If only that telephone pole in the background was not there. It also gives the photographer the ability to manipulate images, creating a skepticism and doubt in the public eye.
Many readers say no.
This attitude of skepticism is enhanced by those few photojournalists who do not hold true the moral values that the majority holds. Then there is the example of John Filo's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Anne Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller. Miller was shot when the National Guard fired into a crowd of demonstrators at Kent State University. But at the moment the photographs were changed, they ceased to be truth. It is the role of the readers of media to understand that although there are technological advances that allow manipulation of photographs, the photojournalist views this as unethical and, essentially, a lie.