Images can deceive, even when they show traces from the real world. Making audiovisual discourses involves symbolic dealings that affect the tracks produced by the technological recording. The images registered in that process become signs and that signs are subjected to all artful devices and conventions that signs entail. For this article, I have analysed the discourse of audiovisual news from four television channels. This provides strong proof about how images editing can subvert deeply the essential principles of news professional ethics. This analysis provides a taxonomical table that enable us to distinguish, classify and evaluate the different ways of live reporting news.
Mateos, C. (2013). Ethical and pathetic live for television news broadcasting. Comunicación Y Medios, (28), Pág. 61 – 79. https://doi.org/10.5354/rcm.v0i28.29700
