So what? Presumably, the photo was of the current team, and she’s not part of the current team. This is use of the technology to be more accurate.

It would be a problem if the picture was showing something nefarious, and participants to a crime were deleted. That’s using the technology to cover up criminal activity.

The real problem is that there is no room for nuance. Everybody just wants things to be black and white, and life seldom is.

From a posed group portrait? Meh. Hell of a lot easier than getting everyone back together to reshoot. It wasn’t photojournalism, just illustration.

This seems like just about the tinyest conceivable violation of journalistic ethics, which is rich indeed coming from the New York Times, which still parrots Trump’s lies as if they’re plausible.