Monday, April 26, 2010

Ethics study guide

News photo folks,

Seems like quite a lot of you studied the Ethics chapter. I am keeping my promise to send you this study guide. It is not going to be 100% as what is in the quiz. However, I can promise you that everything in the quiz are either coming from the chapter or from the discussion we have in class. The quiz will be in multiple choices format.

Ethics study guide

1. According to the author, what are the frameworks for making ethical decision?

2. What happened to the photo showing the volcano dust that eventually being recalled by Reuters photo agency in April, 2010?

3. What is the code of ethics listed by National Press Photographers Association (NPPA)?

4. What did photographer Boris Yaro said to another photographer who tried to stop him while he was taking photos of Robert Kennedy dying on the ground after being assassinated?

5. Why shouldn’t we pay subjects for letting us to take their photos?

6. What should you do while taking up photo assignment of a funeral?

7. Renowned photographer Eddie Adams took a photo that publicly considered as changing public opinion about the Vietnam War, what was that photo about?

8. When Life magazine photographer Flip Schulke was shooting a civil right march led by Martin Luther King in Alabama and saw some black kids was being shoved to the ground by police, he stopped shooting but dragging the kids away. What did Dr. King told him at that moment?

9. The author mentioned several times about “breakfast test” in describing ethical standards in publishing photos. What is the term means?

10. In a 1975 photo of woman and a child falling off a collapsing fire escape, despite a strong disapproval of publishing the photo from the readers, some major benefit was acquired by publishing the photo. What was the benefit?

11. What did the Website of Best of Photojournalism contest do to an award-winning photo showing a half-naked woman being sexually assaulted by a crowd at Mardi Gras in order to protect the identity of the victim?

12. What did National Geographic magazine do to a 1982 cover photo of the pyramids of Giza?

13. Charlotte Observer photographer Patrick Schneider’s manipulated photo of two grieving firefighters eventually earned him a 3-day suspension and also being stripped off of an award he had already won with that photo. What did he do to that photo?

14. Why shouldn’t photojournalists take photos of people or events in the news that the photographer has close relationship to them personally?

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