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What a Jackass Today, the Toledo Blade issued a public apology on behalf of Allan Detrich. Mind you this is the same Allan Detrich who, a week ago told PDN, "I've been in this business 25 years. I'm not a cloner, that's not something I would do." "An intensive investigation of Mr. Detrich's work, conducted by Nate Parsons, The Blade's director of photography, found that since January of this year, Mr. Detrich submitted 947 photographs for publication, of which 79 had been digitally altered. Twenty-seven of the altered photographs were published both in the newspaper and on toledoblade.com, and an additional 31 were published only on toledoblade.com. Another 21 altered photographs submitted by Mr. Detrich were not published. The changes Mr. Detrich made included erasing people, tree limbs, utility poles, electrical wires, electrical outlets, and other background elements from photographs. In other cases, he added elements such as tree branches and shrubbery. Mr. Detrich also submitted two sports photographs in which items were inserted. In one he added a hockey puck and in the other he added a basketball, each hanging in mid-air. Neither was published." There's no place in journalism for this. And I have no tolerance for people who make the rest of our jobs harder and damage the already shaky reputation of this profession. So, good riddance. And good luck in your new career of storm chasing Allan. If you miss the big one, just remember you can always clone in that funnel cloud to make the perfect photo. 
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