Photo manipulation and ethics

1. The main points I read about that regarded manipulating images are replacing peoples heads with others, editing people and objects out of images, distorting images, stretching images, and changing the hue and saturation of an image to give it different feelings. One main thing that i noticed within the main points was that there are all centered around the idea that the edits will make it more aesthetically pleasing to the the audience receiving that image. For example, distorting peoples bodies and also replacing the bodies head with another persons shows that the person editing the image thought about how another person may receive it. If the editor wanted an image of Ann-Margaret but thought her body wasn't aesthetically pleasing in the photo then they would have replaced the body with a more pleasing one. This is not ethical because shift and changing someones appearance does not show the authenticity of the real world, it also degrades the models body that was altered. 
2. The New York Times and the Washington Post apply strict guidelines for the photographers on how to edit and take their images. In journalism the main goal for journalists is to report on what they see. "the use of alteration tools like cropping, blemish reduction and color modification can change the ebb and flow of an article or graphic design. One should be able to see the original version and generate his/her own thoughts on the issue or event, not the other way around."
3. Some acceptable things that you could do to an image in journalism could be stretching an image to make it fit into the magazine. In the National Geographic magazine the image of the pyramids could not fit into the format of the magazine so they stretched it. I think that this is ok as long as you don't distort the image to the point where you are unable to understand what is going on in the image.
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I believe that the most unethical photo manipulation is when Newsweek made the women look more attractive. this is wrong because journalism is about report on whats happening in the world and if you put something fake then journalism becomes fake and thats not what it is about. 

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I think that adding a person into an image is the least unethical. I think this because adding people into an image doesn't hurt anyone.