First, "the author's visceral reaction" is simple journalist ethics. They teach you that at journalist school. Doctored images are bad. Second, noticed how I h

First, "the author's visceral reaction" is simple journalist ethics. They teach you that at journalist school. Doctored images are bad. Second, noticed how I haven't mentioned NASA in my reply about doctored images? I gave some examples of the kind of things photo editors avoid. Nowhere I said, explicitly or implicitly, that NASA adding black was like a "USSR-esque person removal". Also notice how I gave TWO examples? "like pasting some space or removing a person USSR style"? NASA did the first, USSR did the second. Where's the confusion? I called both "creative image doctoring", but NOWHERE did I implied that what NASA did is equally morally outrageous as the second.