In real conflict and war situations the last thing photographers are doing is manipulating or staging the situation.  Our job is to document the events and people.  The picture used in this discussion did not lie or distort the truth.  It was a strong image of what was going on there.  The photographer has zero control over what the new editors do with the image.  So you can blame them for making more of a story out of it than there really was.

By the way this just adds to why photographers hate videographers.  Many photojournalist like wide lenses because it forces them to get close to the subject.  This accounts for both the popularity of still images from conflicts as well as the large number of conflict photographers deaths.  Videographers on the other hand like staying on the outside shooting it.  This is why most of their stuff never makes it past the evening news and their death count is much lower.  Then video guys have the audacity of taking reputation and professional pop shots at photographers.

However, many Civil War photos you see were very staged and photographers would move bodies around and that sort to compose the war shots better. But not in today’s war setting. You’d get your ass shot off!