New York Times Admits Photos Were Manipulated

July 9, 2009 -- The New York Times says it inadvertently
published digitally manipulated photographs in the latest issue of
its Sunday magazine.
In an editors note Thursday, The Times acknowledged that Edgar
Martins, a 32-year-old freelance photographer, digitally altered
the photos. The shots have been removed from the newspaper's Web
site.
Readers pointed out alterations to the photo essay, titled
"Ruins of the Second Gilded Age," on the blogs MetaFilter and PDN
Pulse.
The Times says it confronted the photographer and found that
"most of the images did not wholly reflect the reality they
purported to show."
The editors note says, "Had the editors known that the
photographs had been digitally manipulated, they would not have
published the picture essay."