OMG...that is soooooo true!
At the risk of belaboring the point...so much of the public’s perception is based on the presence of a camera.
But the public never stop to consider HOW and WHY a camera was set up in the first place.
Those ‘candid’ photos of Jennifer Aniston at the beach are taken from the water pointing at the beach. This means, of course, that the photographer must have been wading out into the water to get his camera angle (at best) or was in a boat (at worst). In either case he would be VERY conspicuous.
By the same token, so-called photojournalists who get so-called award-winning photos must usually be positioned in advance to get lighting and a stable platform.
Presidential-campaign videographers are almost always positioned in a ‘camera pit’ i.e. a predetermined location. In our internet age this is a joke. And a fraud. It’s a damn shame that so many people are suckered by it.