THE CAMERA MEN ALSO DESERVE CREDIT

I have for long time observed that photojournalists with the audio-visual media known to the layman as cameramen have been contributing a great deal of details to television news items.

Notwithstanding the wait of the cameras that these camera carry on their shoulders, credit for the TV news story is always only to the reporter but I sincerely believe that the photojournalist also deserve credit their photos or video clip.

As a communication scholar, I appreciate the importance of a photo or pix to a news story. Photos give authenticity to the story, carrying the viewer to places where he or she usually would not go and giving life to the news story by featuring speakers at a function.

I must also use this opportunity to congratulate the print media on always giving credit to the photojournalist whose photos make the news item much more authentic.

I wish to appeal to the TV stations namely, GTV, Metro TV, TV Africa, TV3 and etc to start allocating credit lines to photojournalist just they do for their reporters.

also published in daily graph jun22,2005
PETER ATOGEWE WEDAM
ISD, N/REGION

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