'The Media Student's Book' fifth edition

I have found this textbook very interesting and useful as it contains up-to-date media-related subjects. Therefore, this textbook also let the reader know how the media changes rapidly in a space of a couple of years (internet , phones)

"Writing this edition we've been even more aware of huge recent changes in the media - and the other - worlds that we all navigate."

Whilst I have been reading through a good ten or so pages into the textbook, I've quickly learnt and now think a little differently about the media: on page fifteen of this textbook, "Viewers often assume that 'blurring' shows a photo or shot is 'truthful-because-not-polished-looking'.

It continues to explain that this is partly because of photojournalism and this blurry type of photo is called 'snatched' -when the image is shown not posed because of the poor lighting etc. But a 'snatched' photo could also be a hoax of some kind or a fake as quoted from the textbook: "as in several notorious (celluloid) examples of 'arranged' war footage..."