Speed, accuracy and photo identification
While we’ve had loose guidelines around this procedure for years, we’re going to need to formalize them, and then continue to evolve them. We’ll share what we come up with in updates to this post, and welcome your thoughts and suggestions in the comments below.One question to get the discussion going: How much do you trust pictures you see in social media, or derived from there on Web sites? Are you cautious about believing captions? And does your level of trust vary between established news sites like msnbc.com and other places where you come across cell phone pictures purporting to show breaking news events?
– via Photoblog – Is this a picture of the Discovery gunman today? We don’t know..
The above refers to the ethics of posting photos from social media during breaking news events. Good to see MSNBC.com open this topic up for discussion and input — and nice to see them use such a non-declarative headline for the post. A worthy discussion.
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