Shanken pg 202-213

On page 209, Shanken discuss artist Geoffrey Batchen and he says something that I would agree with when he says "In short, the absence of truth is an inescapable fact of photographic life." I think that most people would assume that they have the truth when they look at photographs from an article online or newspaper in front of them. Which one adequately portrays the truth of the photographs involved? Back then, before the digital age, most people though that the newspaper photographs in their hand was actually telling them the truth. And in the digital age, most people think that the photographs in the article online sometimes is trustworthy but not all the time. Why is there a trust in the newspaper over the online article? I would argue that both don't adequately ever told the truth. In some way, all images are manipulated whenever a newspaper or magazine is involved. That brings us  to the concept known as "The Myth of Photographic Truth." Photographs or images that are taken, are then edited specifically to portray a "truth" and while ignoring other aspects that could have been photographed is a way of falsely trying to represent the truth. People nowadays wonder if photographs ever tell the viewer the truth because somehow they usually are tampered with i.e cropping, touch ups, etc.