[TChad]

This web site appears to be the source of the CNN altered photo claim:

Yes. In the comments at that site, posters repeatedly ask for but do not receive verification that the altered image is actually from CNN.

While CNN would do something like this, right now it looks like a hoax.

[Califreak]

Isn’t it a sad statement on our media though that so many of us believed it was real?

[cpdiii]

I do not think even CNN would be so stupid as to photoshop the pic to make him look like a skinhead but I hope I am wrong. It would be the death knell of CNN, even in the eyes of the stupid.