photographer vs Newsweek
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- ukit0
Actually, I think the photographer has it wrong. It's should be perfectly fine to crop a picture (WTF are you going to do, never crop a picture?) as long as it preserves the original context.
I don't think anyone looking at this is going to see anything than what it actually shows - Cheney chopping some meat in a kitchen. It's not like they are actually gonna look at it and think Cheney is some kind of serial killer based on the photo.
In terms of using a picture to make a metaphorical point of some kind, newspapers and magazines do this all the time. What you could argue is off about this usage is just the crassness of showing a guy chopping up meat to make a point about torturing people. So it might be tasteless, but in terms of being misleading, I don't see how it qualifies there.
Overall, the guy is probably raising a stink about it to preserve his friendship or access to Cheney.