From www.cris.com, circa 1995...

"Digital images are very easy to alter. Our readers know that this can happen
so why should they believe what they see? They should be ABLE to believe that
what they see (is indeed a "photographic record" of what was actually there)
because of the credibility of the SOURCE of the information. The
photographer, therefore, has a huge burden of responsibility to maintain the
credibility of his images and the employer (publisher) in turn has a burden
or responsibility to the photographer as well as the reader to do the same..."


Source materials:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030813212509/http://www.cris...
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46395 (less info)