Lessons from the Nat Geo eclipse photo dustup – Poynter

Every news organization can take a lesson from this dustup. Ask: Are we doing enough to explain how we do our work? It is a good time to think over the ways we skirt full disclosure, the way local TV uses “as-live” videos to trick viewers into thinking a reporter is live on the air when they aren’t.  There are plenty of people who accuse dutiful journalists of producing “fake news.” We shouldn’t do anything that gives oxygen to those incendiary accusations.