It seems to me that it does matter that the photograph that Charles originally ran was photoshopped, because it suggests that the web site from where Charles got the photograph has an agenda to distort the truth. This suggests that at least some of the web sites Charles is going to get his information about the situation on the ground is biased and perhaps factually incorrect.

(Note I’m not saying Charles wants to distort the truth; only that at least some of his sources of information are clearly—with this photograph as an example—distorting the truth.)