Fake Reagan tear on Time's new cover

Time magazine has undergone a redesign and its first new cover (apparently out tomorrow, March 16, 2007), has a tearful Ronald Reagan on the cover beside the coverline "How the right went wrong."

To quote the blog Radar Online (Radar magazine's web entity):

Is Time hoping a little controversy will draw attention to its redesign? The first new-look issue, on newsstands tomorrow, features what appears to be a photo of Ronald Reagan with a fat tear sliding down his cheek, illustrating the cover story, "How the Right Went Wrong." A somewhat cryptic credit in small type on the (revamped!) table of contents describes the image this way: "Photograph by David Hume Kennerly. Tear by Tim O'Brien." Nowhere does it specifically state that the cover is a photo illustration—in other words, that it's Photoshopped.

Typically, when you put a 'shopped photo in or on a publication, you give a "photo illustration" credit to the relevant people, and usually do so next to the photo (although cover credits usually sit inside the first few pages or on the Masthead). Note to self: check next issue, see where the credit is run and if it's as bad as they make it out to be.

Edit (March 16): An interview with the Reagan tear's creator.