The National Enquirer titillated readers by running photos of, what look like, the dead Anna Nicole Smith in a body bag. It turns out the photos are a fake, and the Enquirer editors defends their actions by saying the photos are simply a recreation, and it's similar to the way a police sketch artist works.

"It's almost the way a sketch artist works. There were so many different layers of how to achieve it, I couldn't even begin to describe it to you."

When asked if he thought his magazine's methods resorting to Photoshop a bit cheap, he responded "I don't think so, because it's so realistic and there's so much news in the story," argues Enquirer editor in chief David Perel. (The article claims it was pneumonia, not a drug overdose, that killed Smith.) "If you had our images side-by-side with the actual photos, I don't know if you'd be able to tell them apart."

I say, cheap tactics to sell a rag.

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