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I know it's unusual to be fair to reporters on this site, being that they are all generally considered scum who know nothing of aviation, but it would not have been a reporter who wrote the caption. That job falls to the sub-editor who, in years gone by, especially on the Telegraph, would have checked, double checked and tripled checked just exactly where the throttle is on any aircraft they are captioning. Sadly, newspapers have suffered from the same fierce cost-cutting that has hit many other industries and production desks are no longer staffed by a dedicated team of professionals given time to check such things. I believe the Telegraph has suffered some of the most fierce cuts in Fleet Street in the past year or so and replaced most of its highly accurate subs with a bunch of kids paid next to nothing to churn out stuff for both the paper and the website with barely time to come up for air. Mistakes are inevitable. Having said that, the caption does display an alarming lack of initiative in the sub-editor, if he or she had said joystick rather than throttle they could have just about got away with it. But then again, I have to ask myself, in the grand scheme of things, does it really matter that much? After all, there are people dying of starvation in the world and kids being murdered on our streets by knife-wielding gangs. And then there are wrongly captioned photos... Tragedy knows no end.
Best wishes to you all, Sean