JW Randolph at Grist [1]has discovered that the coal industry has, quite literally, bought friends off the shelf in the FACES of Coal [2]campaign facilitated by the D.C. PR firm Adfero [3]. The photos on the FACES website [4] were all sourced from iStockPhoto [5], 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.
Links:
[1] http://www.grist.org/article/2009-08-27-faces-of-coal-are-istockphotos/
[2] http://www.desmogblog.com/new-grassroots-pro-coal-group-backed-k-street-pr-firm
[3] http://www.adfero.com/
[4] http://www.facesofcoal.org/
[5] http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php
[6] http://www.desmogblog.com/tags/grist
[7] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4461
[8] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4474
[9] http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/4475
[10] http://www.desmogblog.com/faces-coal-industry-buying-friends-shelf