How to avoid using inappropriate stock photos of trains 0 ▲ Jon Worth 1 hour ago · 5 min read1049 words · Politics · hide · 0 comments This week I stumbled across a story in the Bruxelles EU publication Rapporteur, arguing for a "rail revolution in Poland", illustrated using a Russian Railways RZD Sapsan train:I am pretty sure, politically, you do not want RZD as part of your revolution!Earlier this week the TRAN Committee of the European Parliament likewise had used a picture of a Sapsan train, although at least that one was corrected swiftly. And even leaflets and banners at trade fair Innotrans featured Russian trains.Does this matter, maybe you're asking?If you are the author of an article, and use an inappropriate photo - and especially a politically inappropriate one - then I am going to doubt everything else in the entire piece, and at the very least doubt the thoroughness of everything else in the piece.'But not everyone will notice!' might be the response. Yes. But do we say the same about factual errors in the text? 'Not everyone will notice your fact is wrong' is not a defence for making factual errors, so… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.