FACES: Coal Industry Buying "Friends" Off the Shelf [2]
JW Randolph at Grist [7]has discovered that the coal industry has, quite literally, bought friends off the shelf in the FACES of Coal [8]campaign facilitated by the D.C. PR firm Adfero [9]. The photos on the FACES website [10] were all sourced from iStockPhoto [11], which, as the name implies, is the place where lazy/busy/rich people go for photos when, for example, they don’t have any friends of their own.






