Staged, Staging, Stages

Suekyoung Kim

NFL draft party and florist cases did show how ethics matter when shooting a video. Staging is never right for journalists because it alters truths. That’s why professors urge journalism students to be aware of various codes of ethics that are related to fields of their future career. Dave Wertheimer says if you do not feel comfortable putting someone in an unnatural situation, put your foot down and don’t shoot it, or figure out a different way to get the story on the air. If we don’t keep this in mind, what ensures journalistic reports different from Hollywood movies? Even though it varies in degree, however, reproducing can never be the original. What really matters most is indeed staged images could deceive its audiences. The case from “sliding sound, altered images” in which KLAS added sounds to the surveillance camera video and aired it was something. Adding sounds to the silent video to make scenes close to the real setting? In this case, the fact that sounds were added to the video tape should be verified or the sounds that did not exist in the video tape should not have been added in the first place. There are lots of codes of ethics that whoever practices journalism should keep in mind. These articles brought why the principles of journalism and codes of ethics are so worthwhile to learn about to my mind again.