Hmmm...well, I'm not sure I'm the best person to ask (I've got more points of my Journalistic Licence than Ann Robinson's got on her driving licence), especially as I rarely read MBY these days.
1. While I agree that charter crew shouldn't do such things, it's possible that it sometimes happens, just as the crew of Mirabella V shouldn't really have let her drag onto some rocks while en route to the Monaco Yacht Show a few years back. However, I do admit that the mystery skipper thing does stretch the bounds of credibility at times.
2. You are assuming that the photos in some way relate to the words. This is often, but not always, the case. Sometimes there just aren't the right photos to go with the text, so other photos are used for illustrative effect. I don't know what occurred on this occasion, but don't presume that Alan made it all up...he's one of the better and more honest journos around.
FWIW, journalists aren't allowed to make things up, but it does happen. The days of Woodward and Bernstein are long gone, and we're now just "off-line content providers", filling in the gaps between adverts and selling mags and newspapers by whatever means is necessary (half-truths, misrepresentation, gossip-disguised-as-news, etc). Bitter? Me? Nah...just been in this business 27 years.
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