Re: Vehicle Recognition: Re: [GZG] The dreaded Panzer Chaffee

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http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lOn 8/29/05, Doug
Evans <devans@nebraska.edu> wrote: 
> 
> oerjan.ariander wrote on 08/29/2005 10:29:15 AM:
> 
> > As long as they can tell the difference between a LAV-25/BTR (with
> wheels)
> > from an Abrams/M-109/T-72 (with tracks), they're a lot more
competent at
> 
> > vehicle recognition than most journalists...
> 
> Jack of all, master of none, seems to be the problem with journalists.
I
> hear the same complaint about financial news commentary, though in
both
> cases, there's indication of improvement.
> 
> I also recently heard that the number of journalists killed in Iraq
has
> exceeded the number killed in two decades of the US in Viet Nam.
Suggests
> they are paying their dues...

 Hang out with people who hate Westerners, thinking your ultra-liberal 
credentials will protect you, and you might get a nasty surprise.
 But no, based on the number of stories where I have had an opportunity
to 
either be present when it happened, or talk to Soldiers who were, the
media 
is not in any danger of acquiring a clue any time soon.
 CNN, for instance, broadcasts nearly all their stories from the roof a 
hotel in the Green Zone. Safest place in the country, and they are all 
dolled up in flack vests and helmets and "here in the heart of Baghdad".

Dumb shits. Even the US GIs in the Green Zone are in shirt sleeves and 
boonie caps.
 John

> -- 
> "Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again
and 
> again. We're looking for thousands of Persians."
> --Vita Aureliani