Photography Dead?

Geez, I guess Comrade Charles and I aimed too low with our little snipfest over film photography vs. digital. A cultural guardian at Newsweek now argues that photography as a whole is dead, offed by truth-obscuring technological manipulation. To whit:

Digitalization has made much of art photography's vast variety possible. But it's also a major reason that, 25 years after the technology exploded what photography could do and be, the medium seems to have lost its soul. Film photography's artistic cachet was always that no matter how much darkroom fiddling someone added to a photograph, the picture was, at its core, a record of something real that occurred in front of the camera. A digital photograph, on the other hand, can be a Photoshop fairy tale, containing only a tiny trace of a small fragment of reality.

To which I reply: This is news? And you know a medium has some exciting stuff happening underground when mainstream media produce "Is (Blank) Dead?" articles.

Is Photography Dead?[Newsweek]