ABSTRACT
The Los Angeles Times war photo from Iraq was so arresting that picture editors from the Chicago Tribune and the Hartford Courant published it prominently. Unfortunately, the photographer lost his job over it. Maybe it was the fog of war, but the 5-year veteran of the Los Angeles Times had digitally cut and pasted together two similar images, and it fooled several news editors (Irby, 2003). In this war montage, truth was the first casualty, and the photographer’s job was the second.
