[mjp]

[shoutingandpointing]

All the digital buffing and polishing that goes into those poses ( a pose is how many clicks for each pic that actually makes it to the page? ) there is no way that those fingers went unnoticed.

Finger sign or no sign, any given personal photo/portrait (this is not a candid snapshot; it is staged/set-up) is at best “move your _______ a little to the _________; now move your _________ ____________, wait, go back just a little to the ___________ . . . and . . . hold it right there . . . good . . . . and ‘click.’ “

Even if it was a purely coincidental and unintended slip that got by the photographer, it would have been caught in the photo proofs and again in the paste up and again in the edits and again in the final edit and then in the cover proofs. Whatever it is, it is not an accident.