Is Seeing Believing?
a Survey of Magazine Professionals’ Practices and Attitudes Toward Ethical Standards for Photographs

"A survey of magazine professionals found fewer than four in 10 respondents would alter or enhance an image to improve its readability. Circulation, size and magazine type predicted whether respondents would enhance photographs. However, despite the declines in media credibility and the expectation among readers that publications would indicate when a photograph has been doctored, few supported the use of photation marks, marks similar to quotation marks, to indicate that a photograph has not been doctored beyond minimal standards. Most of the respondents preferred either to use the term “photo-illustration” or to give no indication of any kind." [Information des Anbieters]