Charles, I think your headline for this thread is incorrect, and your outrage is an ego trip.

The column by Clark Hoyt did not claim that the NYT broke this story. His column says that Witty discovered the fakery and acted to remove it from the web site and keep it out of the print version. Nothing more.

No one is arguing that LGF didn’t break the story.

Why not accept that someone else also detected the fakery? You did a good job of discovering the fake photo, but surely you’re not egotistical enough to think that no one else made the same discovery independently.