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Or how not to use Photoshop: to forge the news! There is a very hot news item in Belgium at the moment, the murder of Joe. He's a kid who was killed for his MP3 player in the Central Station of Brussels, amongst hundreds of other people. The entire country cried out in outrage.
Here is a follow up story by the BBC.

I found an older newspaper clipping on the web. On this picture here below (click on the small one to zoom-out) you see people laying down flowers at the spot where he was murdered. This picture was published by the Belgian news paper "Het Laatste Nieuws". This was to show the world that a "sea" of people came to pay tribute, I guess if only half had shown up it wasn't hot enough? The picture was taken by the AFP. A reliable source one would think. Well, think again, and look at he people in the circles. Whatever is good for making the news just that tad bit hotter? Very out of line and even disgusting in my opinion. Don't refrain yourself and give yours as well.

Unless of course whoever is spreading this clipping on the Internet is using Photoshop to put this newspaper in a bad daylight, as I haven't seen the actual newspaper....