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I saw this on the news today. It's nearly as funny as the idea of doing all that recycling, and then printing 720,000 needless leaflets to tell people about it!
Yes, why they wanted to spend so much money printing that leaflet was beyond me as well.
BTW, I wonder if they got that photo the legal way. I can't imagine it - it would have been labeled "Birmingham, Alabama, US" or something like that if they had got it from a photo library, right? So was this an illegally used photo, downloaded from the internet, one wonders...
Quote: Yes, why they wanted to spend so much money printing that leaflet was beyond me as well.
BTW, I wonder if they got that photo the legal way. I can't imagine it - it would have been labeled "Birmingham, Alabama, US" or something like that if they had got it from a photo library, right? So was this an illegally used photo, downloaded from the internet, one wonders...
Not really, the title would most likely be "Birmingham skyline" it would only be in the tags that it would say USA, Alabama or England etc... a good portion of people wont read those tags and just assume it is what they are after. My guess would be they gave the task of finding the images to an office junior.
Quote: Quote:My guess would be they gave the task of finding the images to an office junior.My guess is that the leaflet design should have been checked by the City Council before it went to print, it's just a cheap cop out blaming everything on office juniors
One person (lets say the junior) gets tasked with finding images of the birmingham skyline, which they do and presents them to a superior to choose for the leaflet. Now the superior takes these images and chooses the one they like, without ever seeing the tags involved they do not know where the image was from. This is the way in which most ****-ups with images happen... some lazy arse delegating the task to someone who shouldn't be doing it and not adequately briefing or checking what they do.
Redsnappa, you're not the office junior in question are you? 
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