I was intrigued by this American Photo article about a Reuters photograph which was apparently edited in Photoshop. From the posting:

Reuters pulled a photograph of burning buildings in Beirut yesterday after a post on the Little Green Footballs blog outed it as digitally manipulated.

The photo, filed on Saturday by freelance photographer Adnan Hajj, ran with the caption "Smoke billows from burning buildings destroyed during an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut's suburbs."

That smoke bore "repeating patterns" and came from at least two buildings that appeared to be identical, according to Little Green Footballs editor Charles Johnson. These repetitions were "almost certainly caused by using the Photoshop 'clone' tool," the post concluded.

Reuters issued a "picture kill" immediately after being notified of the manipulation along with a statement that "photo editing software was improperly used on this image," and replaced it with a corrected version of the photo.

This one just blew me away. See both version of the picture here. How many other pictures in the news stories that we get are "doctored" to send the message that the media wants us to see? It feels like the bias of the press is getting more and more blatant. I wonder how far it would have to go before there would be a backlash by the readers/viewers demanding fair and equal reporting.