4/3/2003: Photoshopping at the LA Times

[lawman]

About Arnott....

wasn't he fired for merely pointing out that the US Military planners underestimated the resistance they ultimately received? Although probably an unpopular and unwanted observation, certainly it wasn't without it's base in fact.

Unless there is more to the story (and there usually is...) I don't feel Arnott's firing was justified.

Geraldo on the other hand.... should have been sealed up in Capone's empty vault...[bitter irony]

I recall seeing the picture floating around the news sites of a Marine carrying a wounded Iraqi soldier - there was definately some photoshopping on that, certainly not to the extent of this one, but there was the noticible 'glow' around the soldier indicating some contrast/brightness/gamma manipulation.

I don't object to a bit of correction in a photo, but I would also like to see a disclaimer at the bottom indicating what had been done to the original.