Neither CBS erasing its competitors nor Harvard trying to disguise Serbia is as pernicious as, say, Stalin airbrushing Trotsky out of group photos. But all attempts to change images prey on the tendency of humans to trust the camera, to assume that whatever they see is real. The loss of that trust is perhaps one of the more worrisome consequences of a few minutes' play in Photoshop.
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Stephen E. Sachs '02, a Crimson editor, is a history concentrator in Quincy House.