Staging BAD!

In my opinion, staging a video or photograph is completely unethical. The role of journalists is to tell a story by recording events as they naturally happen. As soon as a journalist asks his or her subject to recreate an action or event, it is no longer natural, and therefore it is a misrepresentation of the truth. If journalists ask people to change what they are doing for the camera, then those people will think that all news videos or photographs they see are staged. This will cause those people to loose faith in the news. Staging is a great way for a journalist to lose credibility, and without their credibility journalists have nothing. I believe that if you have to stage a shot in order to tell the story, then you should not do the story at all. Luckily, there is usually always another way to tell the story and have every shot be true, it just takes some creativity. Journalistic integrity is very important and is not something that should be sacrificed for any reason.