To clone or not to clone?

[Oldboy]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2544662/Pulitzer-Prize-winning-photographer-fired-admitting-doctored-Syrian-war-rebel-picture-photoshopping-camera-original-image.html   

[Beaux Reflets]

I think as the photograph is a documenting one by nature, that cloning should not ever be allowed!  More especially if being used to describe the horror of war!

A line has to be drawn somewhere and there is enough media manipulation with sensationalism that is often misleading.

[ABERS]

No news photographer should alter his work, that's a golden rule that I've heard from one or two that have given talks that I've attended.

'He will not work for the AP again in any capacity.'

I bet, until he comes up with a stonker of an image that AP would hate any other agency getting their hands on.

[jinky]

No - never in such circumstances. Not sure why he made it hard on himself even presenting this shot though - nothing that striking.