The doctoring of photos

Depending on the picture and what its intended use for publication is, there can be some issues with changing the content of it. Some examples of this would be the simple fact of putting the head of a celebrity onto a supermodels body. It doesn't show who they really are. The Newsweek article about Martha Stewart titled Martha's Last Laugh had a subtitle that suggests she lost weight while in prison. Looking at the picture that is behind the title shows a skinnier Stewart and now we believe that she really looks like that, all because of her jail time. The fact of this picture is that the body does not belong to her, which would in turn make the entire article false.
This is not to say that the editing of pictures is totally uncalled for, it just needs to be done in the right way; to still display the truth. Changing the coloring of a picture slightly, like what we seen done to the mugshot of O.J. Simpson is not as controversial. Yes, the picture in Time magazine makes him look like more of a criminal than the one in Newsweek, but there is really no fault here. Looking at other pictures and video clips of Simpson, you can easily tell that Time darkened the image, but that is all they did.
Along with this, if a newspaper or magazine wants to fix slight problems with a person, such as whitening there teeth or removing a meaningless scar on their face, it just makes the picture more appealing to the public.
In article 2, placing people where they were not originally, such as the riot police in the event in Rome completely changes the whole meaning of the photo and the events that took place at the time of the image. That is severely tampering with a picture, and crossing the line. It becomes misleading to what actually happens at the events and things like this are what eventually starts the rumors and lies about what is actually going on around the world.