DaButt
Tuesday 18th August 2009 11:47pm
14,722 posts
Quote: Robert D @ August 18 2009, 8:41 PM BST
Go down to the fourth picture and suddenly it has grown 10ft. Why can't these newpapers get things right?
I worked on the copy desk at a newspaper for years and have plenty of experience in such matters. Photographers write captions for the photos they take, but they aren't always the best journalists. It's up to the editors to ensure that the captions match the actual facts as reported by the author of the article. Sometimes things slip by - especially when a deadline is approaching.