A small but perfectly formed example of how the media can twist a story to its own ends.

Take this story published  by the BBC today.

What does the copy and accompanying image suggest to you? To me it says Heathrow Terminal 5 is still fucked, but it’ll be ok by Saturday. Hurray.

Then compare it to this photo taken by James Cridland. It was taken two days ago.

James himself admits on Flickr it’s part of the terminal where perhaps you wouldn’t expect to find  the biggest problems, but the point remains: using an image like this would have given the BBC story a very different spin, but would you be as interested in reading it?