Nothing here too surprising...I guess my first thought is that it is supposed to be easier to verify the trustworthiness of something caught on tape - but the camera cannot see everything. We distrust Stephen Glass-style journalists, but his work was done in words and descriptions that if filmed on camera would have exposed the fraud.
Maybe that is part of why broadcast journalism is more popular; it's easier to trust the camera than it is a written description. Even so, deception is still not hard; we as journalists need to do as my mom would say, and avoid even the "appearance of evil."
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