I'm skeptical it would be just me given there is some prominent text right below the image that says "not the radio tower".

> Okay, so maybe they wanted to have a photo, but there's no way to frame this that makes the journalist or the outlet look good. Intentionally or not, choosing a wrong photo is still screwing with readers' perception of reality.

Doing a search for how other news websites reported this story, only the CNN used the "correct" image. A few others used different images without even giving context it was a different tower. A few of the other ones are certainly more egregious, not labelled at all..

Other/wrong image:

https://www.fox9.com/news/radio-tower-stolen-wjlx-alabama

https://nypost.com/2024/02/11/news/alabama-radio-station-wjl... (about a minute into the top clip, there is B-roll with generic radio tower images)

https://boingboing.net/2024/02/09/200-foot-radio-tower-stole...

Actual image:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/08/us/stolen-transmitter-radio-t...

No image:

https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/someone-stole-a-jasper-radio...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/02/09/radio-...

> Okay, so maybe they wanted to have a photo, but there's no way to frame this that makes the journalist or the outlet look good. Intentionally or not, choosing a wrong photo is still screwing with readers' perception of reality.

Choosing a "wrong" photo that is CLEARLY labelled, I don't agree with this opinion. I find that hypercritical. Seemingly we simply disagree.