Could be worst, could have an image of an American metro traingoodness me, this again? :roll::roll::roll:
for the 9 millionth time: It is a stock picture taken from a photographic library and used to illustrate an article intended for the general public who will not care if it is a picture of Shrewsbury, Clapham Junction, Invenerss or even Tokyo!
Get a grip.
Correct, Glasgow Central. http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/apr/15/rail-metal-theft
And OT:
When you're talking severe disruption, it also helps to show a huge number of tracks, because it'll have more impact on the people than showing a rural line with some cows next to it
) Today, all those pictures are digitised and on a searchable database making finding the best picture even easier. The top-and-bottom of the use of incongruous photographs for the story they are supposedly illustrating is that (more often than not) the journalist just can't be a***ed.
Agreed, on all points. However....
At some point in the last few decades, a Shropshire Star photographer will have taken a photograph (maybe even a couple!) of Shrewsbury railway station. That photo, along with innumerable others taken over the decades, will have gone into the newspaper's Picture Library, and the same applies to every other station and every other local newspaper.
When I worked in the Editorial Department of a provincial newspaper (which shall remain anonymous!) the need for a stock photo for a story meant wading through packets of photographs all neatly labelled by subject and arranged carefully on acres of library shelving to find the best one for the story. (Or, if it was a political story, you looked for a photo that wasn't the best one!
Whether or not that matters is a different argument!
Do a Creative Commons search, and you pretty much can. (For this situation, instead of using Google Images, you could use Geograph instead.)
