If people aren't aware that NASA photoshops their publicity materials it's not for lack of transparency. Hell, show me an organization that *doesn't*. You think that's reality you're seeing in that magazine? Pfft. If it's not grainy, flat, a little blurry and poorly framed it's done by a professional, and if it's done by a professional it's been modified well beyond any degree of honest representation of reality.

Generally I am all for the sentiment in the article, but when it comes to complaining that media imagery is modified - that's just reality. The difference between big dumb government and the rest of the media world is that the rest of the world knows how to do it well enough that you don't notice.