Controversial Editing in Media

Here is an image used in journalism world as controversial photo manipulation.

Pictures as this have triggered debates throughout media on what is appropriate in journalism, the argument against editing was that the magazine depicted something that did not exist, and presented it as fact.

This cover shows quite clearly the mugshot taken of a man who is yet to be convicted is depicted on the cover of 'time' magazine as almost a criminal through the colour saturation which had been tampered with to affect O.J Simpson's innocence which he attained with the overall constrasting look on the cover of 'Newsweek'. It shows the endless lengths media will go to to portray anything they want us to believe.