Photo Manipulation and Ethics

I. 

A.) Someone at the newspaper in the Middle East manipulated a picture of female ministers Limor Livnat and Sofa Landver and had replaced them with two male individuals. Some pros say that manipulation isn't right and that the basic rule is "do not lie." A Code of Ethics was updated in 2004 and addressed television and visual editing since the one in 1946 didn't address that. It is basically to maintain public confidence while the media/pictures are out and about. 

B.) Morally I think its wrong. It's basically a fake. Why would anyone want to make people think something is there when its not? Pictures of important people, nature, cities, citizens and anything really shouldn't be messed with. People could get the wrong idea or think something bad of it and ruin someones reputation when its all just a scam. 

II. 

A.) I think this is the most unethical picture because the real pictures show that he was protecting the civilians. The editor made is seem like something completely different like he was threatening the man or something. The man with the baby looks frightened in photo because the original photo was the soldier protecting everyone from gunfire, so they took the mans face was obviously startled looking due to the gunfire. 

B.) I think this is the least unethical picture because all they did was move the pyramids closer together so that they would fit in the vertical cover of Nat. Geo. I mean, its not a good thing because it may have people thinking that they're actually that close together, but in reality they're not.