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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, February 21, 1993                   TAG: 9302210194
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

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USA TODAY REPORTER DISCIPLINED FOR PHOTO

USA Today has taken "significant disciplinary action" against a reporter for his role in arranging a misleading photograph of gang members, the president of the newspaper said Saturday.

"The picture was set up under false pretenses," said Thomas Curley, who declined to provide details on exactly how reporter Richard Price had been disciplined. "That was wrong."

Price could not be reached for comment.

Price set up a front page picture published in Tuesday's editions of the newspaper that showed five angry-looking black men with guns for a story about the potential for gang violence in Los Angeles.

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