The wrong way to use a photograph

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: This is bad.  Altering a photograph and leaving enough
: detail for REAL people to be identified.  The magazine
: bought a stock photo of real Marines.  Then used it for
:  a story about soldiers going AWOL.  But, the magazine
: left enough detail for the men to be identified. None
: of the soldiers in the photo were AWOL.

: What if the staff had altered the faces and name tags?
: Should the magazine have hired a model for the faces?
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: [storyheadline] Harper's misuses local Marine's photograph 

: Kinder, 19, of Pinch, is pictured on the cover with six
: other Marines standing in their T-shirts, shorts and socks
:  above a headline reading, "AWOL in America: When Desertion is the Only Option."

: The magazine, which does not identify the soldiers in
:  the photo, also digitally altered Kinder to make him 
: appear blurry, like a ghostly figure vanishing.

: Mickey Kinder found out about his son's cover shot last
: week after a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times 

: called relatives. Two Marines in the picture are from St. Petersburg, Fla.,
:  and the reporter tracked the Kinders through them. 



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