How Do You Spell That?

Hmmm, I don't get it. Are we saying that:

(a) Because there's lots of cameras around, that the emotion must obviously be fake?

That doesn't fly, there's plenty of camera footage of legitimate emotion all the time, one only has to look at the hours upon hours of footage of people weeping in the aftermath of 9/11. There were plenty of cameras, and people sobbed in their presence, oblivious to them.

(b) That because there's a "staged" photo (and by staged I mean, prepared photo opportunity) that it is somehow "fake" and not indicative of reality?

Sure, many photo opps are fake, including the NUMEROUS ones where Dubya (and every other president before him on both sides of the aisle) stand in front of a group of (kids, moms, soldiers, grannies, patients, etc.) and "stage" an emotional moment against a pre-determined background.

I guess what I'm saying is that regardless of whether the emotions being displayed are faked or not (and I'm not convinced they're fake), what would make that theoretical "fakery" any different than the numerous staged photo-ops the right has made during the war. (Like, say, flying a fighter jet onto an aircraft carrier and declaring victory before a single unit had returned home)?