For editors of reputable newspapers or owners of news services, doctoring a photograph is a fireable offense. It’s hard to believe professionals would endanger their reputations and careers by altering the pictures on which their professional lives and work depend, but these ten photojournalists were disciplined for faking pictures, and most were fired. After investigating rumors that Meadows’s photograph had been staged, the newspaper’s director of photography, Larry Armstrong, determined Meadows had fabricated the picture. Without the public’s trust in the integrity of photographers’ work, “we have nothing; we cannot survive,” he added. The photograph was a composite of two pictures “taken moments apart.” He hadn’t intended to transmit the altered photograph, he said.