News- no, it's propoganda

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

That's different from Reuters, but I thought it was interesting. The photo was very convincing.

Yeah, a good rule of thumb is to never assume a photo used for marketing purposes is unaltered. They almost always are.

At MousePlanet a "journalistic" photo is never altered except perhaps for color and contrast correction. Otherwise the only editorial choice I get is in cropping. But "non-journalistic" photos, desktops and the home page leader graphic for example, frequently are photoshopped to remove distracting elements or create a more pleasing artistic object. For example, a desktop photo (the purpose is artistic not informational) of the castle might be photoshopped to remove a stray person that wandered in frame but in a photo accompanying article I would never do that.