Week 9 Question 1

To what do we owe to the audience? Do we really want them to trust us? I believe that we as speakers owe it to the audience to be truthful. If we alter something to serve our own purpose we have the potential to lose our audiences trust. It would be incredibly awkward to have someone know the photo you were using and call you out that it was altered. You also have the potential to have to lie your way out of the alteration of the image. Then you would have to continue the lie or even worse, you may have to explain your reasoning as to why you decided to alter the media in the first place. I believe that there is always media out there to prove your point. You just have to find it. You don't need to alter it to your advantage. There will always be more out there.