Ease of Alteration Creates Woes for Picture Editors

This is old news, but in case you don't know the details, "Little Green Footballs blog" bustered a Reuters photographer for doctoring his photographs. Here's an example where he took two photos and merged them into one to make an American soldier seemingly waving off a father with one hand while holding a machine gun. The father is holding what appears to be a possibly wounded small child.

This is also the same blog responsible for revealing the details that led to the resignation of Dan Rather.

Now it seems that some photographers are actually staging photographs even to the point where they are digging up buried children.