The Controversy of Ethical Editing

A controversy erupted when the University of Wisconsin-Madison cropped in an African American individual in attempt to portray the universities "diverse student population. The publications editor justified his action in that the unaltered photograph, depicting an all white crowd of students falsely represented the student body. Opponents to this add in African claim that regardless of any justification, alteration in this form is, on principal, wrong. A formal apology was made and a reprint is currently being considered.

I don't see moving the pyramids closer together on the cover of a magazine as being overly unethical. Maybe if this were a map or some other resource for actual geographical referencing. This edit was purely for aesthetics; I think that's okay in this situation.

I think this crosses the line and is unethical. Politics already have enough controversy in the spin of written word and gossip--an edited picture of an even that did not even occur is unnecessary and, in my opinion, wrong.