"Fauxtography" alert: NYTimes and USNews

It seems that there is much "Fauxtography" going on at NYT and USN. Why resort to this? What's the agenda?
This is an example.

Look who exposes this (August 8 posting, and earlier).

Is Cebu's (RP's) MSM into this? Hope not.

Update (10Aug): Apparently NYT had a correction to the caption. But still, many questions need to be answered. See this.