Editing Perception management (section)

== Journalism ==
[[Journalism]] is a field that organizations, companies, governments, and individuals will attempt to use to manage the public's perception of that specific organization, company, government, or person. Perception management through journalism has been seen especially in regard to government propaganda and war. This becomes problematic when governments promote certain ideas that they want the public to believe through journalism, without the journalists and media properly attributing their sources.<ref>{{cite web|author=Shah, A.|date=2005-03-31|title= War, propaganda and the media-global issues|url= http://www.globalissues.org/article/157/war-propaganda-and-the-media}}</ref>

Another issue in the journalism field is between the corporate business of keeping a news organization afloat versus the ethics of reporting and reporting the truth. Just as with any other major corporation or even small businesses there are conflicts between the reporters and the executives within a news organization. Reporters with strong ethics will want to run all stories that are "newsworthy", but some of those stories may be [[censored]] by editors because the executives have sent a note down the chain specifying that a certain story may or may not run.<ref>{{cite web|author=Campbell, D.|year=2000|title=After the wall|publisher= [[American Journalism Review]]|url= http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=220}}</ref>