[Leica] Photoshopping truth - a polemic

[tgray at 125px.com (Tim Gray)]

On Jul 08, 2010 at 02:30 PM -0500, George Lottermoser wrote:
> But please do expect or demand that they stop doing what they've done
> so well for so long. Research their back issue covers, over the years -
> beautiful, powerful editorial illustration - expressing opinions which
> you or I may or may not agree with.
>
> There's a place in our world for this professional, creative work too.

Wouldn't it have been easy for them to say in a caption inside that the 
cover image was edited, an 'illustration'?  I see no problem with editing, 
cropping, erasing elements, etc., as long as it is made clear that these 
actions occurred.  Especially in a photo that can so easily be 
misinterpreted as an uncropped, unedited picture, i.e. the 'truth'.