Sliding Sound, Altered Images

Sliding Sound, Altered Images by Al Tompkins is a good guideline to how journalists should conduct themselves when editing video and audio. Like it was written, the visual has a huge impact on citizens and we as journalists must be careful not to abuse that power.

The list is a good one, and it covers the bases well. It seems like they are common sense rules, but looking at the media it is surprising the number of times stuff appears to be added or mixed around unnecessarily. There has to be a standard and it has to be adhered to. Otherwise how are journalists going to be credible? If we do not have our credibility, we cannot do our jobs. This hurts us, because we will be unable to support ourselves, and this hurts the people of America, because they will lack necessary information.

It's a good list, with good standards. I believe they should be followed.