Nepal leading bimonthly magazine published some photos; king joining hands with some major political leaders. This magazine faced sharp criticism from some Nepalese vernacular weekly newspapers. It is not common to make ?til lai pahad banaune ?in Nepal.
Some journalism ethics presented below may be helpful for Sajha readers to judge if HIMAL Magazine was acting against the journalism code and conducts.
Journalism should be?????.
? fairness
? independence
? respect for the right of others.
? Pictures and sound should be true and accurate. Any manipulation likely to mislead should be disclosed.
? Use fair and honest means to obtainmaterial. Avoid misrepresentation and use of concealed equipment or surveillance devices.
? Accept the right to privacy of every person. Public figures' privacy may be reduced by their public role. Relatives and friends of those in the public eye retain their own right to privacy.
? Do not place unnecessary emphasis on personal characteristics including race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, age, sexual orientation, family relationships, religious belief or physical or mental disability.
News/Editorial Images (Impermissible Procedures)
The following digital image editing procedures generally are not permitted for news/editorial purposes:
3.0.1 Adding, removing or moving objects in such a way that the context of the event is altered.
3.0.2 Age progression or regression (e.g. adding gray to hair).
3.0.3 Changing a subject's facial expression, gestures, clothing, body parts or personal accessories.
3.0.4 Retouching that enhances or reduces the apparent quality or desirability of an item, or the aesthetics of a place.
3.0.5 Using "motion" to create a misleading impression that the subject is moving at a different speed than he/she/it was moving during the events.
3.0.6 Using effects or color changes in such a manner that it is unclear whether the effects or color changes were applied through digital editing or were part of the original event that was being covered.
3.0.7 Using any other digital editing procedure in a way that creates a misleading impression of the events, participants or context.
3.0.8 In nature photographs, special care should be taken to represent animal and plant life in its actual environment, habitat and context (e.g. do not lighten a background to make it appear that a nocturnal animal is diurnal or place an animal in fabricated geographical settings).
3.0.9 It is impermissible to manipulate a nature photo so as to create a false appearance that animals were associating with other animals (including humans), to group animals together in a manner that did not naturally occur or to increase the number of animals in a group.
3.0.10 The enhancement of nature images for the purpose of investigation or viewability is permissible, provided the manipulation is incidental, obvious or specifically disclosed to the viewer.
3.0.11 It is impermissible to represent a fabricated phenomenon as natural (e.g. adding a shooting star or rainbow).
3.0.12 These procedures are impermissible whether accomplished through digital editing or physical editing ("mortising") of images.
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