Abstract:

Technological advancements have created significant changes in news photography. Photography can be seen as a component supporting and making sense of news specifically in the media. International media and news agencies started to attach great imprtance to photography along with the proliferation of news photography in mass communication. Recently visual materials are being widely used in the media because photpgraph is much more attractive and absorbing than written text. Sometimes a single photo might be much more effective than pages of text. The main problem here is; the ethical condition created because of the use of photopragh as a product of fiction. This ethical problems is specifically observed in political and war photos along with fictitious methods such as re-framing, colouring and/or re-directing. This is important as photograph is used as a means of manipulation and propaganda today. The study analyzes how news photographs are used as a means of manipulation and propaganda with an ethical point of view over photopgraph samples.

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