Of course, you still have to be sensible about it. Don't do what the University of Wisconsin at Madison did . They were preparing their undergraduate application materials and for the cover, they wanted a photo of the student body that demonstrated its alleged racial diversity. Alas, they could find no such photo, so they added an arbitrary black student's face to a photo of a sea of white football fans. Place the cropped negro head in a noticable but not particularly prominent place.
Truth is no stranger to fiction .
In 1978, well before the recent sheep cloning, a fellow named David Rorvik reported that the cloning of human beings was already being accomplished at a remote laboratory, spurred on by a California millionaire desiring a cloned heir. You might as well just ask how many times a country has gone to war. The answer's the same. And Seymour Hersh almost got taken in by phony documents proving that Marilyn Monroe was paid hush money by JFK to hide their affair. One reporter tells the story of how he bought into the whole Church of Kurt Cobain hoax in the media feeding frenzy that followed the suicide of the latest jukebox hero.