Video eithics

While I understand that people may have different views on the exact limits to editing, I can't imagine there's anyone in the news profession that doesn't share these basic ideas about video ethics. Just as one shouldn't make up details to add to a print story, so should one avoid adding sound to footage unless it was originally there. I did have to pause at Tompkins' comment about being careful when editing the brightness of an image. I regularly use the curve tools in Photoshop to enhance the clarity of an image, but I can certainly see that there is a lot of room for interpretation when it comes to how much editing detracts or adds too much to the image to it to really be telling the truth.