Officially Photoshopped

Friday, 17 September 2010 | by Pat's Picks

Photoshop, it seems, is not just for image-obsessed Hollywood starlets and sketchy tabloid editors. It’s also for self-conscious heads of state and sketchy state-run newspaper editors. A reader tipped me off the a controversy that’s percolating in Egypt after the country’s largest newspaper ran a doctored photo showing President Hosni Mubarak leading a group of world leaders at this week’s White House peace summit. The original photo, taken by an Associated Press photographer, shows President Obama leading the pack.

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The people at American Copy Editor’s Desk point out that while this seems like a pretty blatant breach of journalistic ethics in the West, there are different standards in other parts of the world. I get that. But to me it seems like an accepted practice, regardless of where you’re from, that a guest would follow a host around his own house.

Thanks to @ericcunningham for the tip