EXERCISE 4. M3
The weekly news magazine L’Express owned by a close friend of President Nicolas Sarkozy doctored a photograph of the French leader to make his waist look thinner.
One of them was found to be altered.
Compare the original image on the left, with the altered one on the right.
- What kind of image manipulation is applied in this case?
- How far should we go when making such “small improvements” in images used by news media outlets?
- What may be the ethical problems in this case?
