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Response to "Manufacturing Consent"

Having already learned some about US foreign policy and censorship of information, this documentary did not completely take me by surprise. Much of public opinion is shaped by available news sources. Those sources are often owned by large corporations whose best interest is to keep the public ignorant of crucial details in a cycle that ultimately results in the corporations staying in power. They do this much like the metaphor of a newspaper receiving surgery in the documentary. It is almost impossible to find an unbiased news source, which is incredibly frustrating.
The part that makes the situation seem the most hopeless is that people have known this for years. More and more people learn about how the social classes interact and why the wealth gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing, but it seems like nothing will change. It's as if one group makes a push in the right direction, but the news outlets controlled by the corporations are able to smother it by just doing nothing.
It really makes one wonder how long the cycle can go before the system collapses and the majority can no longer keep the minority afloat.

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After realizing, there's not enough room on the shirt to last for forty-something more blog posts, only one drawing will be uploaded per post from this point on.

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Response to "Ethics of Digital Manipulation"

Link: http://www.astropix.com/HTML/J_DIGIT/ETHICS.HTM


In his article, Jerry Lodriguss explains his stance on the ethics of photo manipulation in saying that enhacing an image to make it easier to see remains within the boundries of ethics while adding or subtracting anything is unethical. For the most part, I agree with his ideas, but I am not sure about his idea of his enhancing a component to make it more visible or aesthetically pleasing. To me, an ethically-true photo should present a picture as close as possible to what the naked eye would see, regardless of whether it is easier to see or not. To make it more than that would cross the line into unethical.
Although I slightly disagree with where his line on ethics stands, I completely agree with stance on intent. However, it is almost always impossible to reveal a photographer's true intent and we almost always have to take his or her word for it. So no source can truly be 100% trustworthy 100% of the time because of the complex guidelines for ethics in photography.

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Mock Album Cover - Magic!

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