Manipulation,communications homework help

Feminist blog Jezebel offered a reward of US$10,000 for the unaltered “pre-Photoshop”
photographs of writer/actress Lena Dunham’s Vogue photo shoot by Annie Lebowitz. Shortly
after the announcement of the bounty, someone produced the unaltered photographs, and
Jezebel published them on its website.
Jezebel’s intention was to expose the extreme distortions required to achieve unrealistic
beauty standards in the media. However, Dunham was unimpressed and defended Vogue. She
said: “A fashion magazine is like a beautiful fantasy. Vogue isn’t the place that we go to look
at realistic women; Vogue is the place that we go to look at beautiful clothes and fancy places
and escapism, and so I feel like if the story reflects me and I happen to be wearing a beautiful
Prada dress and surrounded by beautiful men and dogs, what’s the problem? If they want to
see what I really look like, watch the show that I make every single week.”
Critics have argued that such distortions are akin to minimalising the women rather than
embracing the differences that make each woman unique. By digitally manipulating the
models to look younger, thinner, and flawless, the media inevitably led the audience to
believe and accept such unrealistic and distorted standards of beauty as the norm.
Examine Vogue’s action and Lena Dunham’s reply. Discuss the ethics of digital manipulation
in the magazine industry and use an ethical principle to appraise the efforts of Jezebel
magazine.
Your answer should be about 1500 words and Proper APA Referencing and Citations