Sorry, McGrath, but I don't think you know the new-gathering process if you think the photographer doesn't have any control over the captions on his pictures. Every paper I ever worked for or know about considers it damned near a firing offence for a photog to come back without solid information about whatever he/she has taken shots of.

Editor try to put things in readable language, but they don't generally extrapolate off what they see to reflect their own prejudices and they certainly don't get to the professional level of a wire service or major newspaper without being pretty sensitive to the kind of thing Wolfgang et al are accusing them of ignoring.

I don't find it too much of a stretch to believe a photojournalist watched something happening and then reported it, do you?

ddw