Even though it's not real and no normal human being can look like that, it's hard to not compare yourself to photoshopped models you are used to seeing everywhere. This is extremely detrimental on girls who are young, going through puberty and very impressionable.
According to this article, 80% of girls have been on a diet by the age of 10 and early of the girls ages 16-21 would consider surgery to change their body. A big part of this is because they are affected by the media. Luckily, actresses and models who are usually photoshopped are stepping up and fighting against it. At just 19 years old, Zendaya was a victim of photo manipulation and posted the original images on her social media platforms to show just how much it was altered.
Photo manipulation is obviously hurtful to anyone with social media, but a big problem can occur with it in the news as well. Manipulating photographs goes right alongside with fake news. Being able to photoshop any kind of picture is extremely easy. When it's posted on social media and is shared with just the click of a button, it can lead to a lot of people believing it (especially since it's a picture and not just a news article).
The first situation that comes to mind when I think of photo manipulation in the news is the "Situation Room" photograph. This picture was taken when the Osama Bin Laden raid was being monitored in 2011. The original picture features Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Robert Gates, Hilary Clinton, Audrey Tomason, Brad Webb and others.
Di Tzeitung, a newspaper in Brooklyn, NY, edited out both Clinton and Tomason... the only two woman in the picture, making it appear as if no women were originally in the room. In this video, a man says this has to do with the concept of modesty and that pictures of women are usually not run in this specific paper.
Although this was quoted as the "newspapers' standards", an iconic moment like this that will remain in history books forever should not be manipulated. This could completely alter people's understanding of the situation. It also makes it seem as though women were not involved in this moment when they obviously were an important part of it.
It's pretty terrifying how any picture can be altered so easily. Not only is it important to fact check articles to make sure they are, but now people have to fact check pictures and make sure that everything happening in the picture is accurate.
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Photo manipulation is obviously hurtful to anyone with social media, but a big problem can occur with it in the news as well. Manipulating photographs goes right alongside with fake news. Being able to photoshop any kind of picture is extremely easy. When it's posted on social media and is shared with just the click of a button, it can lead to a lot of people believing it (especially since it's a picture and not just a news article).
The first situation that comes to mind when I think of photo manipulation in the news is the "Situation Room" photograph. This picture was taken when the Osama Bin Laden raid was being monitored in 2011. The original picture features Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Robert Gates, Hilary Clinton, Audrey Tomason, Brad Webb and others.
Di Tzeitung, a newspaper in Brooklyn, NY, edited out both Clinton and Tomason... the only two woman in the picture, making it appear as if no women were originally in the room. In this video, a man says this has to do with the concept of modesty and that pictures of women are usually not run in this specific paper.
Although this was quoted as the "newspapers' standards", an iconic moment like this that will remain in history books forever should not be manipulated. This could completely alter people's understanding of the situation. It also makes it seem as though women were not involved in this moment when they obviously were an important part of it.
It's pretty terrifying how any picture can be altered so easily. Not only is it important to fact check articles to make sure they are, but now people have to fact check pictures and make sure that everything happening in the picture is accurate.
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