Re: [GZG] Vehicle Recognition

> I one took a local journalist to task on this (calling the C7 a
machine 
> gun). His defence
> was that the paper shoots for about a grade eight audience and saying 
> 'assault rifle'
> wasn't meaningful to everyone. If he said 'machine gun' then he 
> communicated by way of the
> popular common knowledge that the machine gun fires lots of bullets in

> quick succession
> (in other words, is capable of burst or fully automatic fire). I still

> maintain that's
> doing the readers a disservice and perpetuating and spreading 
> misinformation, but I wasn't
> going to win that battle....

The inference from this is that the average audience is slightly thicker

than tarmac or slower than glacial progression.

I saw a news report recently were armed police were arresting somebody
(bank 
robbers/terrorists/whatever) and the voice over was refering to the
PISTOL 
armed police as HEAVILY ARMED S/F.  Since when are pistols heavy
weaponry. 
Do they think the police were using the "Cricket" from "Men in Black".

I have come to expect this though since they seem to act more like
salesmen 
(make it bigger, brighter and louder) than reporters.  Their fascination

with "famous" people is irritating too.

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