Re: ...it's worse when they bear no relation to the problem mentioned in the article.
Agreed. I wondered what the story had to do with instragram.
Ed: You know we can't publish it without an image, John.
John: But how do you represent something that isn't there?
Ed: Well, it's about SSL in general, isn't it? Didn't we do a piece on instragram having a leak, or something, a few years ago? Just use whatever was on there.
John: Uh, are you sure?
Ed: Yeah. The coding on the site won't allow us to run a story without a pic any more, just use one of your pet dog or something. Nobody even looks at them, let alone expects them to correlate to the actual article.