[1over137]

>As an editor, given this as your only photo choice, what caption would you write?

I would just not include a photo at all.

[fbdab103]

As a reader, I want to have a sense of scale of the tower.

[1over137]

Of course. The scale is 200 feet, as described in the article. Maybe you want it in football fields?

[fbdab103]

A picture is worth a thousand words. 200 feet tall and how thick are the bars? How many? Could I do it with a hacksaw or would I need a more intense torch? I want to visualize perpetrating the crime.

[ssl-3]

It's hard to correctly visualize something when the provided visuals are abhorrently wrong, though, isn't it?

There's a world of difference between an old free-standing Long Lines tower and the straight-and-narrow guyed tower that actually disappeared, just as there is also a world of difference stature between Roseanne Barr and Gwen Stefani.

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but each of those thousand words has negative value when they're simply wrong.

[dredmorbius]

Smoots.

[flaminHotSpeedo]

And that photo totally fails to convey the scale. Pictures of the actual radio tower were posted elsewhere here and it's way smaller.

[TeMPOraL]

Yes, and what the wrong photo does is fuck with your sense of scale entirely. The included tower is more of an industrial installation; the real tower is more like something a couple drunk metal thieves could salvage in an evening.