Staging & Video Ethics

As is consistent in journalism, the products we produce must be accurate and true to the topic from which they were captured. The authenticity of our video and photo work is, I think, particularly important, as many of the consumers of media automatically go for the visual elements of any story before they touch the print side. That being said, the quick snippet of information they gather from the visual elements of, in this case, the video we shoot, must be accurate if they are to ever trust our organization to give them correct information. It is our job not to mislead them into false assumptions about the important topics of the world, or even the smaller stories discussed around the water cooler.