I heard about this and there's a discussion elsewhere on the net in regards to it.... My 2..... It is the job of a photojournalist to present the facts. What he did was wrong....his job is not to make his photographs artistically/compositionally pleasing. While not too much was done in the manipulation, I don't think the newspaper was being unfair in their decision. He was fired as a lesson to others.... yes? It's unethical to manipulate images and present them as fact in the context of photojournalism.

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