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Photojournalists<br />
“they sometimes are portrayed as<br />
doing exactly what journalists<br />
say they should do: they<br />
promote accuracy and fairness,<br />
document wrongdoing and<br />
evil, and push citizens toward<br />
empathy and justice. Other times<br />
they represent the worst fears<br />
about visual media: an oppressive<br />
force that lends itself to<br />
fabrication, trivialization, and<br />
dehumanization” (Heroes & Scoundrels, 102).<br />
Peter Parker<br />
Like Superman, Peter Parker moonlights as a hero. There are the same conflict of interest<br />
concerns with Spiderman as there were with Clark Kent. He is the subject of his on photos. In<br />
the Tobey Maguire Spiderman film, he poses for his own photos. This feeds into the popular<br />
culture depiction that photojournalists set up and doctor their images.<br />
FICTION May 2018 7
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