X-ray wrote:
@ alewis
"...No it isn't. The critical element of the entire story is that a round of live ammunition was found in a shop doorway. This is hardly a common ocurence, and was deemed newsworthy. The find itself is *the* critical element..."
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Oh, well in that case I will have to notify those reporters that I found a multicoloured bird-dropping on my front step this morning. You don't see too many of those around here, perhaps that find will be the critical element in their next story.
:lol: Posible Bird flu!
as per:
X-ray wrote:
@ alewis
"...Yes it is when it is in the public interest to over-emphasise the danger. Ammunition is fairly harmless, but there is a risk regardless. It is not the role of a newspaper to educate their readership how to handle live ammunition, so better to over-emphasise the potential danger..."
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You call it over-emphasising, I call it misrepresenting. That is the first step in media scaremongering.
X-ray wrote:
They made a mountain out of a molehill with that cartridge story and I think you know why they did it: lack of research and a desire for sensationalism. ... Stories such as this one are the delight of those who would like any ammunition (if you excuse the pun) to call for a total ban on firearms in the UK.
It could be said this story has an
agenda and is scaremongering for your own good. Quit letting facts, get in they way of them helping you, because the nanny state
knows best whats good for you.
:lol:
