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Author Topic: Annoying / amusing use of completely irrelevant stock photos to illustrate press articles  (Read 392373 times)
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« Reply #765 on: November 12, 2024, 20:57:49 »

Actually, I do agree, ChrisB.  Smiley

It's generally their photo editor who is at fault - just lazily finding 'a picture of a train' and stuffing it into their news item.  Roll Eyes

It reflects badly on the news publisher, though - hence this whole topic.  Grin
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« Reply #766 on: November 12, 2024, 21:04:58 »

Actually, I do agree, ChrisB.  Smiley

It's generally their photo editor who is at fault - just lazily finding 'a picture of a train' and stuffing it into their news item.  Roll Eyes

It reflects badly on the news publisher, though - hence this whole topic.  Grin

I publish ... a Melksham blog. 555 articles to date, and each of them has at least one illustrative picture. Sometimes they're darned hard to source and make relevant.  Any masochists who want to read the blog can do so at https://grahamellis.uk/blog.html
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« Reply #767 on: November 13, 2024, 16:05:12 »

Do the BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) get brownie points for a more relevant photo for the rapid-charging trial. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpqd1vr1xzro
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« Reply #769 on: November 17, 2024, 21:33:25 »

That's a mock-up - no Date/time stamp on the screenshot
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« Reply #770 on: November 17, 2024, 21:48:22 »

That's a mock-up - no Date/time stamp on the screenshot

sponsored posts don't have a date stamp

Edit to add - I am in no way endorsing the product offered by either sponsored post shared below

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« Reply #771 on: November 17, 2024, 22:32:59 »

Thanks for that, from an ex-Waitrose partner - now retired. Grin

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« Reply #772 on: November 18, 2024, 08:14:50 »

Reference the idyllic "poster" for Fisher Investments: there are half-a-dozen websites I visit daily, including a financial one where , coincidentally, someone asked about this company three days ago. The replies, one referencing comments elsewhere on the Web, advised caution about becoming a customer.
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« Reply #773 on: November 18, 2024, 08:36:32 »

Reference the idyllic "poster" for Fisher Investments: there are half-a-dozen websites I visit daily, including a financial one where , coincidentally, someone asked about this company three days ago. The replies, one referencing comments elsewhere on the Web, advised caution about becoming a customer.

I should (will go back) and make it very clear indeed that was not any form of endorsement from me.  Personally, being retired we have a provision that has been built up which adds to my basic pension but I would not presume to recommend or suggest other than to recommend that you don't listen to any advice I might give.
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« Reply #774 on: November 18, 2024, 14:50:45 »

Grahame, not for a second did I think that your posting the image was any form of endorsement, rather that you did it only because it was a nice illustration - and one I found evocative. I only made my own post because of the coincidence of the company (of which I hadn't heard before) having just  featured in another forum which I frequent.
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« Reply #775 on: December 10, 2024, 16:09:11 »

The Reading Chronicle website has excelled itself, with an article about a suicide at a "Berkshire train station" that it doesn't name, with a photograph of a train in New York.
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« Reply #776 on: December 17, 2024, 22:27:11 »

West Country trains to London may get slower, minister warns

They will if GWR (Great Western Railway) use class 230s on them.

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/west-country-trains-london-slower-9800903
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