Some people think visual images (like photographs,videos) can tell information more accurately in a news story, while others think they are not reliable sources. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

With the rapid development of modern technology, in the journalism industry, many journalists tend to use visual images to complete the story for they prefer its accuracy,

while

some people doubt its authenticity . On the

one

hand, compared with text description, visual images demonstrate the process more accurately and directly. The invention of cameras allows the details and the course of incidents to be recorded by means of photos and videos , thereby acting as more convincing

evidences

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in

journalism

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industry.

Moreover

, compared with the monotonous and subjective description given by reporters, readers can be better informed about the beginnings and ends via visual images.

For instance

, once a journalist wrote a report to set up the miner donation.

However

, it didn’t receive much attention from the public until he made a

video

recording

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workers’ daily routine in the tough working environment,

as well as

the illness they have to endure, which

then

arouse

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huge impact on the public. Since

then

, ordinary people started to concern about the health of the workers and gradually donate

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this

industry.

On the other hand

, visual imagines might be misrepresented in inaccurate manners.

One

of the ways is isolation, sharing a brief clip from a longer

video

creates a false narrative that does not reflect the event as it occurred. Take the point-of-view

video

as an example, it only

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one

angle of a story

instead

of objectively demonstrating events.

Furthermore

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is

also

one

of the methods. To skew reality and deceive the viewers, posters might use cropping, changing speed even deleting or adding visual information to alter the frames of the

video

. As far as

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am concerned,

although

visual information has several merits, it is high time that we should distinguish white from black to avoid being misled by those incorrect or artificial photos or videos.