Some people are really trying hard. You find it not to your taste? Fine. Falsehood? My goodness. Are they testifying to something here? Is YWN falsifying anything when they put up stock photos or funny shots of politicians? The newspaper wants to put in a picture so that it should be more interesting. That’s all. They are doing a service for their readers (or voters), who want exactly this type of service.
And as for: “In journalism, altering a photo is a cardinal sin,” perhaps they are more concerned with other types of sins.
This whole journalism ?????? is the biggest falsehood of them all. Instead of relating facts evenly — what we would call balanced, but can lead to unbalanced opinions — more often than not journalists see their job as to produce balanced opinions through unbalanced reporting.