During recent VNR controversies, journalists took to columns, Poynter forums, chat rooms, and punditry programs to decry the practice of misleading the public through inadequate disclosure.
But journalists are just as susceptible to shades of gray. Reuters is now in a controversy that originally began - at least popularly - when Charles Johnson, of the blog Little Green Footballs, caught a Reuters photographer doctoring photos by adding smoke plumes from the Israeli-Lebanon war. Critics have questioned whether the doctoring was anti-Israeli ...