Peter Parker, aka Spiderman, has been fired from his job as a photographer because he photoshopped some pictures.

Spiderman, the story goes, knows newspaper publisher J. Jonah Jameson, now mayor,�is innocent of something heinous (it’s always something heinous, isn’t it?), but the only way he can persuade people of that is to digitally manipulate photos.

He does and loses his job, so Spiderman becomes a victim of the recession, although in these days of widespread layoffs at newspapers prompted by economic forces, the superhero is hardly a typical victim.

I say Jameson was right to fire Parker, even though the photographer was trying to help his boss.