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> Advertising photography, on the other hand, which has a long tradition of manipulation and fabrication as a means of achieving marketable perfection, may provide a model for how all photographs will look in the future.

Very prescient!

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> Even if news photographers and editors resist the temptations of electronic manipulation, as they are likely to do..

Sure thing.

> ...using a montage of the recorded images and sounds at his disposal, make the President's video image speak entirely new sentences...

I guess the rights are a bit dodgy on the infamous Bush/Lennon videocollage; best I could quickly find was: https://youtu.be/xQ-RbyOgo5o?t=42