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Question is moot because I would just do my job to the minimum acceptable standard of competence by sourcing a picture of the actual tower

fbdab103 3y ago
So...a picture of some random sky? Maybe draw an outline of what the tower would look like if it were there?
- 1over137 3y ago
  'Artist renditions' are used for space news, criminal descriptions, etc. maybe not such a crazy idea here.
  - fbdab103 3y ago
    Sure, for high profile things. This is the daily news and a mild curiosity which is hardly worth the resources. Show a picture of a similar model tower, annotate it as such, and I have now have a sense of the difficulty in cutting it down.
    - TeMPOraL 3y ago
      That's the thing: you don't. The difficulty of cutting it down is what is the major difference between the real tower and the depicted one.
dageshi 3y ago
How and where would you source it from? The tower is gone, there's likely no public domain images of it, no stock images of it, so where do you get a picture of it?
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- wly_cdgr 3y ago
  See, that'd be my job as a photo editor. To know the answer. That's the job. That's what makes it a real job when actually done right. Any high school age intern can find a picture of a random radio tower. If you can't meet that standard, don't run a photo, or don't run the story. The world won't come to a standstill because a partisan rag from a provincial backwater didn't run a filler item about a wacky heist halfway across the world.
  - dageshi 3y ago
    In other words, you don't know how practical or not it is to find a picture of the tower and your opinion on the subject is worthless.
    - TeMPOraL 3y ago
      It doesn't matter how practical it is. What matters is, the only honest course of action is to not include a photo of a wrong tower if it's not practical to find a photo of the right one.
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- Sakos 3y ago
  Somebody else here in the comments found it on Google Maps https://maps.app.goo.gl/Y9QMBDPnazGT1cgj9 https://maps.app.goo.gl/Y9QMBDPnazGT1cgj9 I feel like that would be part of the bare minimum of your job for a newspaper.

fbdab103 3y ago

So...a picture of some random sky? Maybe draw an outline of what the tower would look like if it were there?

1over137 3y ago
'Artist renditions' are used for space news, criminal descriptions, etc. maybe not such a crazy idea here.
- fbdab103 3y ago
  Sure, for high profile things. This is the daily news and a mild curiosity which is hardly worth the resources. Show a picture of a similar model tower, annotate it as such, and I have now have a sense of the difficulty in cutting it down.
  - TeMPOraL 3y ago
    That's the thing: you don't. The difficulty of cutting it down is what is the major difference between the real tower and the depicted one.

dageshi 3y ago

How and where would you source it from? The tower is gone, there's likely no public domain images of it, no stock images of it, so where do you get a picture of it?

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wly_cdgr 3y ago
See, that'd be my job as a photo editor. To know the answer. That's the job. That's what makes it a real job when actually done right. Any high school age intern can find a picture of a random radio tower. If you can't meet that standard, don't run a photo, or don't run the story. The world won't come to a standstill because a partisan rag from a provincial backwater didn't run a filler item about a wacky heist halfway across the world.
- dageshi 3y ago
  In other words, you don't know how practical or not it is to find a picture of the tower and your opinion on the subject is worthless.
  - TeMPOraL 3y ago
    It doesn't matter how practical it is. What matters is, the only honest course of action is to not include a photo of a wrong tower if it's not practical to find a photo of the right one.
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Sakos 3y ago
Somebody else here in the comments found it on Google Maps https://maps.app.goo.gl/Y9QMBDPnazGT1cgj9 https://maps.app.goo.gl/Y9QMBDPnazGT1cgj9 I feel like that would be part of the bare minimum of your job for a newspaper.