Using the wrong picture is just one of the ways to distort the truth…
You can also putting the wrong caption under the picture.
Or placing a text or another picture next to the picture to change the meaning: in a book I looked through in a library, I saw a picture of Saddam Hussein next to a picture of the World Trade Center disaster.
The journalists create a message using pictures as illustrations.
What is worrying is that nowadays it’s so easy to forge pictures…
“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe