Staging

I found it really interesting that Dave Wertheimer described the dangers of staging photos in the sense that the football player who was asked to pretend that he was receiving the draft call, and all in attendance would distrust the media as an authentic indicator of the truth. This example along with countless other indiscretions on the part of the media have led to such distrust among the American public toward journalists. Honestly I believe there is more suspicion toward print mediums; people feel that it's harder or more unlikely that photographers would ask subjects to stage a photo or doctor the picture in photo shop. The notion of believe half of what you see and none of what you hear (or read.) With increasing public knowledge about technology available to the media people will become equally suspicious of media images as well.